Hurricanes are severe tropical storms that form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. ... Surface air spirals inward and upward in a counter-clockwise direction to fill the partial vacuum, reaching tens of thousands of feet above sea level to become the hurricane's eye. ... Not since the Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed approximately 22,000 people in the eastern Caribbean, was there a more deadly hurricane. ...

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Now the enemies finally attacked their small, warm, blue island in the Caribbean. ... On their way, away from the island on a boat, they were torpedoed at about three o"clock in the morning on April 6, 1942, two days after leaving the island, resulting in their separation and lost at sea. A long time after he was lost at sea, he opened his eyes to see, as he described, " a huge, very old Negro. ... He first found coconuts in a mass sea grape and ate the meat. ... Phillip would spend hours looking at charts of the Caribbean, even The Cay where Timothy and him were stuck. ...

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In general, warm El Nino events are distinguished by more tropical storms and hurricanes in the eastern Pacific and a decrease in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea (Hurricanes, 2000). El Nino provided the wind patterns that were aligned in such a way that the vertical wind shear was increased over the Caribbean and Atlantic. ...

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The hurricane season starts during late summer and early fall along the coast line of North America and the Caribbean, but in the western hemisphere the season lasts all year long (Knowledge 293). ... Surrounding air spirals around the sea of low pressure and clouds form creating a thunder -storm (Knowledge 293). ... Flat terrain, ten feet or less above normal sea level, will flood a distance of about six miles inland, and sea level rising three to five hours before landfall. ... The reason for this is the change of pressure within the eye of the hurricane, causing sea levels to rise severa...

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Think about where you were on August 24, 1992 and August 26, 1992. While you may have been out relaxing in the hot summer sun, the people of Florida and Louisiana were being pummeled by one of the worst storms ever to hit the United States of America. Florida and Louisiana witnessed first hand just...

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