Historical Essay: Tropical Storm Irma
Hurricane Irma is the strongest basin hurricane ever recorded, no hurricane has ever maintained 185 mile per hour winds for as long as Irma, which was a total of thirty-seven hours. The winds were only 135 miles per hour when Irma hit the US. It also caused for the largest evacuation in the Bahamas history. It spent three days as a category five hurricane which is the longest recorded time period for a hurricane to stay that strong. The US has never had two, category 4+ hurricanes in the same year.
Hurricane Irma lasted from August 31 to September 11, 2017, the storm stretched 650 miles from east to west. August 31 is the first day Irma was considered a hurricane, but it started as a tropical storm even before that, it’s first destination was Cabo Verde Islands. The US, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico were warned about the hurricane on September 4. On September 6, the storm devastated a small string of Caribbean Islands and passed over Barbuda damaging approximately 95% of the buildings on the Island. Irma finally hit the Florida Keys on the 10th of September, first hitting the Cudjoe Key. …show more content…
6,300,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes in Florida alone. 1,300,000 people went without electricity within the first four hours after Irma hit land. There were around 5,000 people who evacuated the Bahamas during Irma, making it the largest evacuation in the Bahamas. Nearly 4 million people were without power for two days following the tragedy. Besides the obvious, Irma also had a very large effect on people’s emotional side, people lost their mothers, fathers, brothers, aunts, cousins etc. Lives were lost, homes were lost, family memories were lost, people were affected in every way, some worse than others, but everyone facing the same main
Hurricane Irma is the strongest basin hurricane ever recorded, no hurricane has ever maintained 185 mile per hour winds for as long as Irma, which was a total of thirty-seven hours. The winds were only 135 miles per hour when Irma hit the US. It also caused for the largest evacuation in the Bahamas history. It spent three days as a category five hurricane which is the longest recorded time period for a hurricane to stay that strong. The US has never had two, category 4+ hurricanes in the same year.
Hurricane Irma lasted from August 31 to September 11, 2017, the storm stretched 650 miles from east to west. August 31 is the first day Irma was considered a hurricane, but it started as a tropical storm even before that, it’s first destination was Cabo Verde Islands. The US, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico were warned about the hurricane on September 4. On September 6, the storm devastated a small string of Caribbean Islands and passed over Barbuda damaging approximately 95% of the buildings on the Island. Irma finally hit the Florida Keys on the 10th of September, first hitting the Cudjoe Key. …show more content…
6,300,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes in Florida alone. 1,300,000 people went without electricity within the first four hours after Irma hit land. There were around 5,000 people who evacuated the Bahamas during Irma, making it the largest evacuation in the Bahamas. Nearly 4 million people were without power for two days following the tragedy. Besides the obvious, Irma also had a very large effect on people’s emotional side, people lost their mothers, fathers, brothers, aunts, cousins etc. Lives were lost, homes were lost, family memories were lost, people were affected in every way, some worse than others, but everyone facing the same main