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A concrete waterfront house destroyed by Hurricane Dean in Kingston, Jamaica. Agriculture damage was widespread. Across the country 40% of the sugarcane crop, 80–100% of the banana crop, 75% of the coffee trees under three years old, and 20% of the top layer of the cocoa crop were lost to the storm. [48]
Nationwide, damage to housing and buildings totaled EC$800,000. [26] In the worst hit areas of the north, closest to Hurricane Dean's path, at least 15 roofs were blown off. Two small waterfront houses were completely destroyed in the town of Gros Islet.
This Royal Caribbean ship, Freedom of the Seas, was the first cruise ship to visit Jamaica after Hurricane Dean. It called into Ocho Rios on August 22. Despite Dean's significant damage, it did not have severe effects on infrastructure, and the non-agricultural sectors of most affected nations recovered quickly.
That storm was Hurricane Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane that took an unusual track northward through eastern Jamaica in 2012. Sandy caused $100 million USD in damage in Jamaica and killed three people.
The Galveston Hurricane. Year: 1900 Death Toll: 6,000–12,000 Financial Impact: Estimated $30 million at the time (~$700 million adjusted for inflation) At the time, 38,000 people lived in ...
Hurricane Dean was one of two storms in the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season to make landfall as a Category 5 hurricane and was the seventh most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded, tied with Camille and Mitch. After its first landfall, Hurricane Dean crossed the Yucatán Peninsula and emerged, weakened, into the Bay of Campeche.
Beryl was about 100 miles west of Kingston, Jamaica and headed west-northwest at 20 mph. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 45 miles from the storm’s eye, putting Kingston within reach of the ...
Dean's path through the Caribbean devastated crops, particularly those of Martinique and Jamaica. Upon reaching Mexico, Hurricane Dean was a Category 5 storm—the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane at landfall in recorded history. However, it missed major population centers, so it caused no deaths and less damage than its passage through ...