Hurricanes are unpredictable, unthinkable and unstoppable. When Katrina hit the gulf coast The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not expect the hurricane to hit as bad as it did. Katrina started as a tropical storm and built up its category and intensity over the warm seas of the Gulf of Mexico.Just like Katrina, hurricane Earl started as a tropical storm over the Caribbean’s Islands.
Tropical storm warning was in effect for Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Barthelemy, Saba and St. Eustatius on Sunday August 29th. Within 48 hours latter a hurricane warning was issued for the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Monday, with hurricane conditions possible on Monday August 30th.
A satellite image showed Hurricane Earl approaching the United States on Thursday morning. Fiona currently a tropical storm, can be seen behind Earl.
The storm, which had weakened from a category 4 to a category 1 hurricane, raced past North Carolina's Outer Banks, a fragile chain of barrier islands, early Friday morning, and was expected to hit Massachusetts' Cape Cod later in the day. Hurricane Earl As of 5 p.m. Eastern Time Friday September 3, Earl was located about 230 miles south-southwest of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and had top winds near 80 miles per hour.
When the storm was expected to hit the costal parts of the United States warning were sent out to those states. I believe since hurricane Katrina, a lot of the people are taking the hurricanes and the warnings that the news and other agencies put out a lot more serious! The fact that the news was telling the people of those eastern states to prepare themselves in such advance shows that we have learned of the disasters that can come with hurricanes. Luckily, hurricane Earl did not make landfall and stayed more out on the ocean because damage was minimal but, yet; those people took it very serious and were prepared for the worst.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/updated-storm-warnings-for-u-s/
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