Puerto Rico Hurricanes

On September 20, 2017, a category five hurricane, Maria, made direct landfall on Puerto Rico, and the way the country prepared for the storm was a complete failure. Puerto Rico is a poor country. For the United States to think that Puerto Rico can hold to the same standards as states like Texas and Florida is foolish; plans should have been put in place accordingly to the island. Because the country is impoverished, Puerto Rico’s infrastructure was neglected to begin with, and the devastation from the hurricane now makes it that much more difficult to rebuild and fix. The 2017 hurricane season was one of the most active seasons the United States has seen since 2005. The low wind pressure and high water temperature made it super easy for intensive hurricanes to form. There have been significant hurricanes each month of this hurricane season. Including hurricane Maria, there were two other majors storms that hit the United States: Harvey and Maria. All three hurricanes this year brought a different type of extremity to the area they hit. …show more content…
The decision to evacuate or not is very difficult because each weather event is unique. Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, and Irma, although tracked by the National Weather Service, all followed very uncertain paths. Hurricanes when heading towards a very populated area becomes just a good guess for public officials as to where the hurricane will make landfall. Therefore, decision-makers will always be criticized for either issuing a mandatory evacuation to soon or too late because the tracking of the storms is not a perfect science. Crisis managers who make these decisions can only rely on the best available information they have through the weather service, which has become more and more accurate in the last few years resulting in more realistic and precise