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It caused widespread destruction, and killed a total of four people. [3] The eye of the hurricane traveled over the three major islands in the group: Virgin Gorda, Tortola and Jost Van Dyke. The hurricane caused extensive damage to property and infrastructure in the Territory, and caused statistically significant levels of depopulation. [4]
Two other people died during the hurricane: a woman died while being evacuated from her house in a wheelchair and fell, hitting her head; another person died in a car accident in Canóvanas. [134] Governor Ricardo Rosselló declared the islands of Culebra and Vieques to be disaster areas.
RMS Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands on 29 October 1867 in a hurricane, killing 123 people. She is now a popular Caribbean wreck dive site. [4]
While Hurricane Irma left a path of destruction in its wake, the damage of the storm could cost less than predicted.
In early September 2017 Hurricane Irma swept across the Caribbean, causing catastrophic damage to the British Overseas Territories of Anguilla, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands. [1] On 7 September Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, announced £32 million had been allocated to a relief fund to support those affected.
Tom Krall, a resident of the US Virgin Islands, experienced Category 5 Hurricane Irma. He told NPR that the winds feel “kind of like if you’re driving in a car at 75 and you stick your head ...
Hurricane Irma is the most powerful tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The islands fall into three different political jurisdictions: Spanish Virgin Islands, the easternmost islands of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, itself an ...
Hurricane Irma. Year: 2017. Death Toll: ~134. Financial Impact: $77.2 billion. At the time, Hurricane Irma was the most powerful hurricane in history in the open Atlantic. People dubbed it ...