Hurricane Allen had a disastrous impact on the St. Lucia banana industry, destroying 100 % of the standing crop. The paper provides details of crop losses and damage, and highlights the main features of the banana rehabilitation programme. The rapid
recovery of banana production and banana exports since Hurricane Allen has been dramatic. - (DB)
Five hundred years of hurricanes in the Caribbean : their relationship with global climatic variabilities in Caribbean hurricanes.
This article concentrates on an analysis of the distribution of hurricanes in the Caribbean basin, investigates some of statistical characteristics, and attempts a coupling of these events with known anomalous periods in the world's climatic history.
Come a nasty gale : the response to Hurricane Hugo on the island of Montserrat, West Indies
Catastrophe ; Climatology ; Flood ; Flood control ; Hurricane ; Lesser Antilles ; Natural hazards ; West Indies
On September 17, 1989, a hurricane devastated this tiny island : trees were defoliated, floods repositioned river channels, and most dwellings were damaged. But the relief effort also reinforced community solidarity.―(DWG)
Catastrophe ; Climatology ; Cultural landscape ; Housing improvement ; Hurricane ; Natural hazards ; Rural house ; South Carolina ; United States
Effects of the September 21, 1989 hurricane on the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, and the changes that have occurred in the cultural landscape since then. Many small wood frame houses have been removed in favor of modern dwellings and more houses
Physical effects of hurricane bebe upon Funafuti atoll, Tuvalu
Interpretation of damage to coconut palms, motu and reef-flat structures together with other directional indicators show that hurricane Bebe passed to the east of the atoll. A model showing wind and water motion associated with the storm
The effects of hurricane Hugo on suspended-sediment loads, Lago Loιza basin, Puerto Rico
Dam ; Hurricane ; Precipitation ; Puerto Rico ; Rill wash ; Sediment transport ; Suspended load ; Watershed
The sediment data that were collected during Hurricane Hugo (five sediment stations and 11 rain gauges were operating in the Lago Loιza basin) presented an opportunity to quantify the transport of suspended-sediment loads into Lago Loιza
and to document the hurricane's effect on reservoir storage capacity.
This paper describes the styles and intensities of hurricane damage and provides information on the factors that increase damage from wind, storm surge and inland flooding. It is based on both published studies of Hurricane Andrew (1992), Iniki
(1992), Bob (1991) and Hugo (1989) plus ground and aerial studies of the damage effects of those storms by the A. Information is synthesized from a number of different cognate fields because a holistic view of hurricane damage is essential if we
are to minimize loss of life and structural damage in future hurricanes.
Reconstruction of Prehistoric landfall frequencies of catastrophic hurricanes in Northwestern Florida from lake sediment records
C 14 dating ; Climatic variability ; Florida ; Holocene ; Hurricane ; Lacustrine sediment ; Mass movement ; Ocean atmosphere interaction ; Palaeo-environment ; Quaternary ; Stratigraphy ; United States of America
Sediment cores from Western Lake provide a 7000-yr record of coastal environmental changes and catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf Coast of the Florida Panhandle. Using hurricane Opal as a modern analog, the AA. infer that overwash sand
layers occuring near the center of the lake were caused by catastrophic hurricanes of category 4 or 5 intensity. The millenial-scale variability in catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf Coast is probably controlled by shifts in the position
Two years after Hurricane Mix : indigenous response in the rain forest of Eastern Honduras
Catastrophe ; Flood ; Honduras ; Hurricane ; Impact ; Land ; Resource management ; Rural community ; Rural society ; Village
A study of the Tawahka people of Krauspiri, Honduras (now living in a biosphere reserve) and how they responded to Hurricane Mitch (October 1998). A. goal was to assess their use of local resources before and after the Hurricane, which did
not directly strike their location but did unleash torrential floodwaters there. Villagers survived by relying on wild resources. After a couple of years some families were much better off than before the hurricane and others were worse off economically
. The hurricane also changes the social structure and land-holding practices. - (SLD)
Crisp summary of the effects and consequences of historic natural disasters in the Caribbean, most notably earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and hurricanes. - (DWG)
Sensitivity of post-hurricane beach and dune recovery to event frequency
Aerial photography ; Coastal dynamics ; Coastal environment ; Florida ; Hurricane ; Impact ; Island ; LiDAR ; Natural hazards ; Sediment transport ; United States of America
The recovery of Santa Rosa Island in northwest Florida is characterized following Hurricane Katrina (September 2005), which was preceded by Hurricanes Ivan (2004) and Dennis (2005). Beach and dune recovery were quantified to the east and west
of Pensacola Beach through a comparison of LiDAR data collected immediately following Hurricane Katrina and in July 2006 after almost a year of recovery. The alongshore variation in recovery is not only related to the island width, but also to the offshore
bathymetry, height of the pre-storm dunes and the overwash penetration. If sufficient time is allowed for the return of vegetation and the recovery of the dunes, the variations in storm impact observed during Hurricane Ivan will be reinforced during
Patterns and controls of hurricane-caused forest damage : a landscape-scale analysis of treefall direction following Hurricane Katrina
Aerial photography ; Atmospheric circulation ; Damage ; Forest ; Hurricane ; Mississippi ; Model ; Natural hazards ; Spatial analysis ; United States of America
To clarify broad-scale patterns and controls of treefall directionality from Hurricane Katrina, the AA. examined fall direction across a 4,500 km2 landscape mosaic in southern Mississippi using georeferenced, planar-rectified aerial photographs
and landscape setting. When coupled with results from other studies focused on hurricane-caused damage, these results suggest that it is possible to develop empirical landscape-scale models of wind impacts or stand vulnerability using basic site information
Hurricanes and socio-economic development on Niue Island
Catastrophe ; Drought ; Ecological catastrophe ; Economic development ; Hurricane ; Island ; Microstate ; New Zealand ; Pacific Region ; Twentieth Century