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The hurricane damaged more than 30,000 homes and left 1,900 people homeless. The storm also damaged 1,373 businesses and destroyed 50, including a hospital. The storm killed 3, injured 38, [36] and caused up to $330 million in damage (2004 USD). [35] This was the first hurricane ever reported in the Atlantic, south of the equator.
Hurricane Betsy was an intense, ... Betsy began as a tropical depression north of French Guiana on August 27, and strengthened as it moved in a general northwesterly ...
Utility workers from Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and France arrived on August 19 to help restore electricity. [33] The Secretary of State for the French Overseas, Christian Estrosi, visited Martinique shortly after the hurricane to inspect the damage.
Hurricane Matthew was a powerful tropical cyclone which caused ... Électricité de France requested additional crews from Guadeloupe and French Guiana to help ...
The deadliest hurricane to hit Guadeloupe was the Pointe-à-Pitre hurricane of 1776, which killed at least 6,000 people. ... Mayotte and French Guiana, ...
Indeed, a thousand miles from Asheville, at 5 p.m. on Sept. 25, Hurricane Helene was a Category 1 storm with its center just north of Cancun, Mexico − still more than 500 miles and 30 hours away ...
After the return of les Saintes under French dominion, Fort Joséphine became a penitentiary from 1851, but it was ravaged by a hurricane, on September 6, 1865. It continued however to welcome convicts on the way towards Îles du Salut, in French Guiana until 1902.
French Guiana [a] is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies.Bordered by Suriname to the west and Brazil to the east and south, French Guiana covers a total area of 84,000 km 2 (32,000 sq mi) [2] [3] [7] and a land area of 83,534 km 2 (32,253 sq mi). [3]