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These hurricanes affected Trinidad and Tobago. Pages in category "Hurricanes in Trinidad and Tobago" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The government allocated $5.1 million (Trinidad and Tobago dollars) for relief work, [17] to be coordinated by the National Emergency Relief Organization of Trinidad and Tobago, which was established following the damaging Hurricane Flora in 1963. This helped rebuild damage houses, clear roads, and assist affected farmers.
The 1933 Trinidad hurricane was a deadly and destructive tropical cyclone, one of only three Atlantic hurricanes on record to produce hurricane-force winds in Venezuela.The second tropical storm and first hurricane of the extremely active 1933 Atlantic hurricane season, the system formed on June 24 to the east of the Lesser Antilles, unusually early for the Main Development Region (MDR) so ...
Tobago is under a red-level warning, the highest alert issued by the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service. People queue outside a bus station in Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago, before the ...
The system continued to organize, and by the next day, it had developed into a tropical storm, the second of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. Bret continued moving swiftly to the west and struck Trinidad and Tobago early on June 20, before entering the Caribbean Sea, dissipating shortly afterwards.
The hurricane damaged more than 14,000 homes and destroyed 30% of the houses, leaving about 18,000 people homeless. A total of 39 people were killed by the hurricane on the island. Elsewhere, Hurricane Ivan caused at least three fatalities and moderate damage in northern Venezuela. One person died each in Trinidad and Barbados.
The storm damaged houses on southern Trinidad and central Tobago. [21] Meanwhile, flood waters devastated local crops, resulting in losses of more than TT$ 4 million (US$730,000). Infrastructure damage due to inaccessible roads and bridges totaled TT$979,000 (US$179,000). [ 39 ]
A dual-island nation that lies just under seven miles north of the Venezuelan coast, Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthier nations in the Caribbean due to natural oil and gas reserves.