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11–12 October: Hurricane Hazel affected every part of Haiti. At more than 249 km/h, the hurricane devastated the country, killing several thousand people. 1963. 3 October: Hurricane Flora struck the Sud and Ouest départements, causing over 5,000 deaths. 14 November: flooding of the Grande Rivière du Nord killed almost 500 people. 1964
The Galveston Hurricane. Year: 1900. Death Toll: 6,000–12,000. ... Hurricane Katrina. Year: 2005. Death Toll: 1,833. ... Seventy-four of the 195 deaths were in Haiti, which was still reeling ...
The hurricane intensified into a Category 3 hurricane for the last time, before weakening while accelerating northeastward. By October 26, Wilma transitioned into an extratropical cyclone southeast of Nova Scotia. Early in Wilma's duration, flooding and landslides caused 12 deaths in Haiti and 1 death and about $93.5 million in damage in Jamaica.
The 2005 season featured 15 hurricanes, surpassing the previous record of 12, set in 1969. Of the 15 hurricanes, 5 formed in September, with the season becoming only the sixth to feature 5 in that month. [17] The 2005 season also featured a record seven major hurricanes, one more than the previous record, set in 1926, 1933, 1950, 1996, and 2004 ...
Haiti was already experiencing flooding from Hurricane Wilma's passage between October 8 and 19, so the threat of more rainfall was particularly dire. [13] The country's Centre National de Meteorologie issued weather bulletins through existing media distribution channels with clear instructions on how residences should prepare for floods and ...
Hurricane Emily was the first July Atlantic hurricane to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson scale.It remained the only to have done so until Beryl in 2024.The fifth named storm, third hurricane, and second major hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Emily formed on 11 July from a tropical wave east of the Lesser Antilles.
Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes in terms of barometric pressure ever recorded (along with Wilma and Katrina), Rita was the seventeenth named storm, tenth ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Before the earth shook and turned their lives upside down, Rosena Dordor was like millions of poor Haitians, living with her family in a cramped home with no running ...