Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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
Striking the Tiburon Peninsula as a Category 4 hurricane on the morning of October 4, Matthew was the strongest storm to directly impact Haiti since Hurricane Cleo in 1964. An anemometer at Antoine-Simon Airport in Les Cayes , east of where Matthew made landfall, measured a gust of 107 mph (172 km/h) before the station went offline.
The 1935 Jérémie hurricane, commonly referred to as the 1935 Haiti hurricane, was a highly destructive and catastrophic tropical cyclone that impacted the Greater Antilles and Honduras in October 1935, killing well over 2,000 people.
A bus filled with Haitian people after Hurricane Jeanne devastates the area. On this day in 2004, Hurricane Jeanne crashed into Haiti. The deadliest storm of the devastating 2004 season, Hurricane ...
The number of deaths in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, jumped to at least 877 on Friday. Hurricane Matthew kills almost 900 in Haiti before striking US Skip to main content
The destructive effects of Hurricane Matthew left about 12.9% of Haiti's population – 1.4 million people – in need of humanitarian assistance, [91] of whom about 40% were children and another 40% were women of reproductive age. [92]
The hurricane season that traditionally begins in June and runs through November is forecast to be severe this year. A gang-fueled crisis has devastated Haiti, and the U.N. estimates 360,000 ...
Hurricane warnings were downgraded to gale warnings for the lower Texas coast south of Freeport from the late afternoon of August 10 into the early morning of August 11. [8] In addition to the various watches and warnings put in place ahead of Allen's arrival, various international governments took measures to prepare for the hurricane in Haiti.