Natural Hazards In Cuba Hurricanes

I personally have not experienced a disaster. However, I have heard about a lot of megadealths from the media. The most recent is Hurricane Matthew. Hurricane Matthew affected the Caribbean, Florida and North Carolina. It is known that hundreds of people have died and over one thousand people remain without houses and clean water in Haiti, four people have died and one million people lost power in Florida and seven people have died, about 760,000 people still remain without power and over 880 people had to be rescued in North Carolina. I am sadden by the destruction that this hurricane has caused. I have a lot of friends in Florida and a lot of family in North Carolina all whom are safe. It took a couple of days to ensure everyone was safe.

For those in the know, hurricane season is the time of year gulf coast surfers have the highest hope for quality surf. The thought of a hurricane is certainly bittersweet with the danger it can potentially cause for the general population but it has been a quite some time since the gulf has gotten significant attention from tropical activity. Hurricanes Ike and Gustav in 2008 were really the last time the gulf experienced serious swell. For the most part, hurricane season

Category 5 hurricanes are the highest level of impact and size a hurricane can be; therefore they can be very catastrophic and one must prepare (especially when you live in Florida). There are many ways you can prepare efficiently for a hurricane, even if you can not accurately predict when, where, or how hard it will hit.

I decided to show my date the hurricane risks associated with Key West, Florida. Key West is at a very high risk for hurricane damage because of its low elevation and its proximity to the sea. I did some research and discovered that approximately 90% of Key West is only five feet above sea level. For this reason storm surges, flooding, and erosion could cause considerable damage to most of the city. The issue regarding how to protect the city from these problems is of much debate. On google earth I could identify sea walls that prevent sea water from flooding the city. Sea walls and storm management systems are perhaps Key West’s main form of mitigation. However, as we have learned in the flooding unit, if the water is high enough no manmade drainage system will prevent flooding. A risky feature that we could identify was how flat Key West is. If

Cuba is an Caribbean island that is located between the Caribbean sea and the North Atlantic ocean. It is slightly smaller than an Pennsylvania. Cuba has a tropical climate with moderate trade winds. It is mostly flat to rolling plains, with rugged hills and has mountains in its southeast. Cuba has dry seasons, which is from November to April. It also has rainy seasons that is from May until October. Cuba has many natural resource and some are cobalt, nickel, iron ore, chromium, copper, salt, and timber. It has arable land, which means land capable of being ploughed to grow crops. The east coast of Cuba can be victims of hurricanes

During a storm, when the wind reaches over 75 miles per hour, tropical cyclones forms over either tropical or subtropical waters. Over the years, there has been over a handful of these hurricanes that have been both costly and deadly. It was between August 24th and the 26th of 1992, when the second costliest hurricane to take place in the United States of America history. The name of that expensive storm is called Hurricane Andrew. Hurricane Andrew affected the areas of the Bahamas, Louisiana, and South Florida.

Cuba has a lot of different climates and most of the time in Cuba it doesn't get below 70 degrees Cuba’s average temperature is about 70 degrees in the winter and about 80 degrees in the summer (Miric).Cuba has a dry and rainy season. The dry season lasts from November to April, and the rainy season runs from May to October

A hurricane is formed over warm tropical oceans. A hurricane is a severe storm.Hurricanes happen in late summer or early fall. Hurricanes spread 70-90 miles wide. Hurricanes are found over warm tropical oceans.

The country is 90 miles south of the Florida keys and 48,800 square miles in total. There is a large variety of of greenland. In fact, there are large mountain systems with large great plains between them, more than a third of Cuba is mountains! Considering there is all this land, one can see that there must be a vast amount of wildlife, (this can't be exaggerated enough) Cuba is known for having the most wild life and flora fauna in the Caribbean. Cuba assigned the western third of the country to exercise military, political, economic and cultural dominance due to european conquest. This beautiful country regulates at the temperature of 78 degrees (about 25 Celsius) with plenty of sunshine. Along with Cuba’s great landforms and great wildlife, it has a beautiful history and

Cuba wanted to be independent so they went to war with Spain, with America by its side. Every day newspapers would tell bold stories about the devastation in Cuba. Many people wanted Spain to move out of the American hemisphere. Diplomats from all three countries began meeting to try and resolve their conflict. It might have been a success if the Maine didn’t show up. The Maine was a ship sent to pick up people in case there was any trouble. The ship was blown up and killed 260 American sailors. The yellow journalists said it was a Spanish attack. But, 78 years later investigations proved that the explosion came from inside the ship.

Hurricanes have affected the Caribbean islands for many centuries but particularly in the 19th century. During the 1840’s Cuba was affected by three hurricanes that all happened within four years of each other in 1842, 1844, and 1846. Many scholars have looked over these hurricanes in Cuba as not really having much of an in depth affect on Cuba’s life and history but just as being hurricanes. But Louis A. Pérez Jr. a professor and scholar, labeled these 19th century hurricanes as a “flash point” to look at Cuba’s history from multiple angles. saw the 1842, 1844, and 1846 hurricanes as being more than just storms by using multiple resources like the Archivo Nacional de Cubaa, Havana, encyclopedias, such as the Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones by David Longshore (New York, 1998), and descriptive chronologies by David L. Niddrie and David M. Ludlow to name a few. By reviewing and using all of these resources, Louis A. Pérez concluded that the 1840’s hurricanes had an effect on agriculture, social relations, and the overall national identity of Cuba.

Natural disasters cause a lot of damage to the economies in Latin America when they happen. The damage can last for months, years or even decades. Natural disasters are hard for everyone, but it is even harder for Latin American countries to recover

Cuba’s climate is very tropical, but also has a rainy season, which starts in May and ends in October. Cuba is known for getting hit by storms during the Hurricane season. The Cuban flag colors are blue, red, and white. Also the favorite sport in Cuba is futbol (soccer).

The tropical cyclone kept moving towards northwest at the same time its circulation gone slower. Less wind shear in the middle with warmer ocean waters were the perfect environment for Gaston to became a hurricane again around 03:00 UTC on August 28. Even it became a hurricane, it kept getting more intense and turned into a Category 3 hurricane which made him the first major hurricane of the 2016 hurricane season of the Atlantic basin. Hurricane Gaston was really powerful, for instance when it made up its peak, it was producing winds with speed of 120 miles (195 km/h. Cold surface currents with dry air environment took off Gastons power on August 29. But, Gaston got strong one more time while producing winds with speed of 120 mph (195 km/h)

Natural disasters may be defined as natural catastrophes which cause great damage by disrupting the functioning of a society thus rendering the country incapable of coping through using its own resources as there is a need for outsider assistance in order to effectively preserve lives and the environment. Conversely, Natural hazards are natural phenomena that are potential threats to people within a society, structures or economic assets and may cause disaster. Natural disasters are inevitable and ubiquitous worldwide. Within the Caribbean, they are chiefly present in the forms of hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, droughts, and volcanoes. The great damages caused by natural disasters may be divided into three categories: social, economic