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Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

REMEMBERING 2O10’S SEVERE WINDSTORMS Xynthia Tropical Storms and Hurricanes: Atlantic Basin Tropical Storms and Hurricanes: Pacific Basin Typhoons Cyclones. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA.

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Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

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  1. REMEMBERING 2O10’S SEVERE WINDSTORMSXynthiaTropical Storms and Hurricanes: Atlantic BasinTropical Storms and Hurricanes: Pacific BasinTyphoonsCyclones Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

  2. Rain, floods, landslides, and Water-borne diseases are usually triggered by a tropical storm, hurricane, typhoon, or cyclone.

  3. IMPACTED NATIONS WesternEurope (France, Portugal, Spain), Caribbean (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Bermuda, Antigua, Montserrat, St Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, St Maarten, St Martin,…

  4. IMPACTED NATIONS (Continued) St Barthelemy, Saba, and St Eustatius), Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador), Mexico, USA (Texas), The Philippines, …

  5. High winds, storm surges, and heavy rains affected tens of thousands. Thousands of homes without power, damaged, destroyed, or inundated. Thousands evacuated. Lives and livelihoods of millions adversely impacted. Efforts to stop Gulf oil leak and Clean up slowed SOCIETAL IMPACTS DURING 2010

  6. Infrastructure damaged and destroyed. $ billions in insured and uninsured economic losses. SOCIETAL IMPACTS DURING 2010 (Continued)

  7. WINDSTORM XYNTHIA FEBRUARY 26-28, 2010

  8. WHAT WAS XYNTHIA?Xynthia,a violent European windstorm with winds up to 140km/hr, crossed Western Europe on 26–28 February 2010, and was the most violent storm since “Lothar” and “Martin” in December 1999

  9. Apowerful storm surge with waves up to 7.5 m (25 ft) high hit at high tide and smashed through a 200-year-old sea wall off France’s coastal town of L’Aiquillon-Sur-Mer

  10. XYNTHIA: FLOODING IN FRANCE

  11. Xynthia: 1) caused flooding, 2) cut power to more than 1 million homes in France and Portugal, respectively, 3) disrupted travel in Spain, 4) tore roofs off houses, 5) downed trees, 6) caused at least 51 deaths, and 7) caused losses estimated at $1.8 B ($1.4 insured).

  12. The 2010 season was predicted to be less severe than 2009 in the Pacific Basin and more severe in the Atlantic Basin because of the diminished El Nino conditions

  13. The Eastern Pacific is, on average, the second-most active basin in the world with an average of 16 tropical storms annually, with 9 becoming hurricanes, and 4 becoming major hurricanes, frequently impacting mainland Mexico and the Revillagigedo Islands, and infrequently the USA.

  14. AGATHA BLAS CELIA (H) DARBY (H) ESTELLE FRANK (H) PACIFIC BASIN TROPICAL STORMS – HURRICANES: 2010

  15. TROPICAL STORM AGATHA STRIKES GUATEMALA SHORTLY AFTER PACAVA ERUPTS FIRST STORM OF PACIFIC SEASON FOLLOWS VOLCANIC ERUPTION MAY 27-29, 2010

  16. AGATHA’S PATH

  17. Tropical Storm Agatha was a weak, but catastrophic storm that made landfall near the Guatemala-Mexico border on the evening of May 29.

  18. Before the arrival of Tropical Storm Agatha, the Pacava volcano, located 25 km south of Guatemala City, started spewing lava and ash on Friday, May 28th, forcing the evacuation of hundreds.

  19. PACAVA ERUPTS: MAY 28

  20. Agatha produced torrential rain all across Central America, which resulted in the death of one person in Nicaragua. 152 in Guatemala (with another 100 missing because of landslides), and 13 in El Salvador.

  21. TORRENTIAL RAINS

  22. SINKHOLE: GUATEMALA CITY

  23. 66 FT WIDE AND 100 FT DEEP SINKHOLE

  24. SINKHOLE

  25. SINKHOLE

  26. SINKHOLE

  27. Sam Bonis, a geologist from Dartmouth, said that Guatemala City is sitting on a bed of old volcanic ash that has not completely lithified (turned into solid rock), and that he believed that the sinkhole was caused by leaking pipes underground.

  28. Remnants of the storm were expected to deliver 10 to 20 in (25 to 50 cm) of rain over southeastern Mexico, Guatemala and parts of El Salvador, creating the possibility of "life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.”

  29. HISTORY OF BLAS • AGATHA • BLAS • CELIA • DARBY • FRANK

  30. HISTORY OF CELIA • AGATHA • BLAS • CELIA • DARBY • FRANK

  31. HISTORY OF DARBY • AGATHA • BLAS • CELIA • DARBY • FRANK

  32. HISTORY OF FRANK • AGATHA • BLAS • CELIA • DARBY • FRANK

  33. ATLANTIC BASIN TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES: 2010 • Alex (H) • Bonnie • Colin • Danielle (H) • Earl

  34. TROPICAL STORM – HURRICANE ALEX: The first named tropical storm of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season. JUNE 26 - JULY 1, 2010

  35. ALEX STARTED AS A TROPICAL WAVE IN THE CARIBBEAN: JUNE 20

  36. After forming on June 25, a tropical storm warning was issued for the east coast of Quintana Roo on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the east coast of Belize

  37. In the central Caribbean Sea, the system produced heavy rainfall in the Dominican Republic that caused flooding and prompted the evacuation of more than 3,000 people.

  38. TROPICAL STORM ALEX: LANDFALL AT BELIZE; JUNE 26

  39. After making landfall in Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, Tropical Storm Alex strengthened again as it entered the very warm waters of the Bay of Campeche.

  40. On the evening of June 28, a hurricane warning was issued for the coast of Texas, south of Baffin Bay to the mouth of the Rio Grande, and by the Mexican Government from the Rio Grande south to La Cruz.

  41. FORECAST: TROPICAL STORM- HURRICANE ALEX

  42. Although waves and winds along Alex’s path slowed work to stop the BP Gulf Oil Spill, in its 71st day of 107, the good news is that the storm did not push the oil landward faster or accelerate movement of the oil eastward into the Atlantic.

  43. TYPHOON CHANTHU (Category 1) July 17-23, 2010

  44. TYPHOON CHANTHU: A CAT 1 STORM

  45. TROPICAL STORM COLIN August 3, 2010

  46. TROPICAL STORM COLIN: FORMS ON WED, AUGUST 3

  47. HurricaneDanielle TS Earl S.MORA

  48. S.MORA

  49. TS Earl S.MORA

  50. S.MORA

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