Hurricane Floyd, September 1999
Hurricanes
Web pages to read:
- All about Hurricanes with statistics about damge and location
- Unnamed,
New England: 1938
- Hurricane
Mitch, Honduras: 1998
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- Increasing
Hurricane Intensity?
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- Questions to think about for the quiz and
final (answers will be in lecture, readings, and web pages):
- Where do hurricanes originate? How do they work? What makes them
so powerful?
- Where in the world are hurricanes most likely to cause damage?
- What settings/areas exacerbate the effects of hurricanes?
- What are the specific dangers to both life and property that
hurricanes pose?
- Can hurricanes be predicted? If so, how? If not, why not?
- How can the effects of hurricanes be mitigated (how do we reduce
the money spent on relief from hurricane damage)?