Outlook risky Storm-cycles and coastal growth could catastrophe A Way of Life
Instead of two hurricanes as a Hurricane Andrew in Florida radiated first, followed by Louisiana last week, left hundreds of thousands of broken lives and damage estimated at 30 billion dollars, higher, it seems to be course of the natural disaster the most expensive in U.S. history.
But the meaning of the hurricane also goes beyond human misery, left in its wake. For a quarter century, the USA, and particularly the most vulnerable coastal areas of Florida, have experienced the biggest hurricanes less frequent than expected meteorologists. Meanwhile, there was an unprecedented movement vis-à-vis the population vulnerable to the storm-coast. For many experts, Andrew is a frightening indicator, much more than the timing of the bill could be if, like most meteorologists expect large cyclone activity increased.
In addition, the destruction mounting with relief in Florida, less than three years, following efforts by Hurricane Hugo was criticized flat, causes some experts fear now that hurricanes cause injury, this massive, it is almost impossible for assistance as quickly as some victims ahead.
“There is only one way to go, more disasters,” said Tim Marshall, an expert from the storm damage and construction standards Hague Engineering Carrollton, Tex. “The hurricanes were still far from swampland that is Now sub-divisions. ”
So, in addition to the enormous task of reconstruction, Andrew probably rise to a wave of soul research on the development of standards, development of coastal zones, evacuation and emergency relief.
“I hope you sure that this is an alarm signal,” said Guy E. Daines, director of civil protection services Pinellas County, Florida, Tampa includes l ‘. “If you live in Florida, you have to wait. ”
Few people expected that the devastation of Andrew, a storm, despite its scope, the most expensive real estate missed further north along the coast of Florida and all major population centres of Louisiana. Almost a week after being taken, over 10 percent of people in Dade County, including south of Miami and its suburbs have been left homeless. Hundreds of thousands of people in Florida and Louisiana were without electricity. And people have always been critical Sputtern still necessary to take measures to support the use of federal troops. However, some experts have for several years now that the bill came from the USA because of the love affair with the coast.
Particularly disappointing is the study of M. William Gray of Colorado State University, left, the frequency of severe hurricanes in the USA on the level of rainfall in the Sahel region of West Africa, just below the Sahara.
He feels a longer period of drought is likely to end in the coming years, the conclusion of the long severe recession in the cyclone activity. Between 1947 and 1969, a period of rainy season in the Sahel, 13 hurricanes with winds over 110 mph, met the East Coast. From 1970 to 1987, a period of drought, a storm of these affected.
Professor Gray said there was no clear trend during the period since 1987 and that Andrew was a storm abnormal are not necessarily related to weather layers in the long term. The beginning of the end
There is no unanimity about his theory, but most meteorologists agree that the slowdown is almost sure to end it.
“It’s like saying that if you down a mine, the only way to go up,” said Kerry Emanuel, director of the Centre for meteorology and physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
If the return of hurricanes, with a new world threatened by the new range of shopping malls, sprawling Sunbelt suburbs, parks and the emergence of gangs rural retreat of Commons.
According to the National Conference of the hurricane in Florida, Hurricane an organization of experts, the value of insured property in coastal counties grew by 70 percent between 1980 and 1988. In South Carolina, it increased by 83 per cent. More than 44 million people now live in hurricane risk coastal counties from Texas to Maine. More than 80 percent of them have never experienced a major hurricane.
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