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A tornado also formed in Nassau, killing a 15-month-old child, and injuring two others. It was rated an EF1, with winds of over 100 mph (160 km/h) being reported from an anemoter near the tornado. However, the strongest winds in the Bahamas directly linked to the hurricane was in West End, Grand Bahama where
Lynden Pindling International Airport (IATA: NAS, ICAO: MYNN), formerly known as Nassau International Airport, is the largest airport in the Bahamas and the largest international gateway into the country. It is a hub for Bahamasair, Western Air, and Pineapple Air. The airport is located in western New Providence island near the capital city of ...
The Bahamas relies heavily on tourism to generate most of its economic activity. Tourism as an industry accounts for about 70% of the Bahamian GDP and provides jobs for about half of the country's workforce. [117] The Bahamas attracted 5.8 million visitors in 2012, more than 70% of whom were cruise visitors. [118]
Nassau had a population of 128,420 females and 117,909 males and was home to 70,222 households with an average family size of 3.5 according to the 2010 census. [19] Nassau's large population in relation to the remainder of the Bahamas is the result of waves of immigration from the Family Islands to the capital. Consequently, this has led to the ...
On July 23 the United States Weather Bureau cautioned mariners in the eastern Caribbean Sea, [11] and later that day issued hurricane warnings for vessels at sea, southeast of Puerto Rico. [12] On July 24 the agency apprised Caribbean-bound ships of 50-to-64-mile-per-hour (80 to 103 km/h) winds, [ 13 ] notifying areas south of 25°N . [ 14 ]
The Nassau Hurricane of 1926 or The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1926 or Hurricane San Liborio of 1926 Main article: 1926 Nassau hurricane The first storm of the season formed early on July 22 about 200 mi (320 km) east of the island of Barbados and gradually strengthened into a hurricane a day later.
The weather and damage were the same in New York as in New Jersey. [60] On Long Island the storm dislodged "several feet" of beachfront, west of Montauk , and breached Westhampton Beach , cutting a 10-foot-wide (3.0 m) inlet at the latter, where 1-foot-deep (0.30 m) water sloshed over 1 ⁄ 4 mi (0.40 km) of road. [ 65 ]