Hurricane Ivan
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- Hurricane Ivan
- Facts
- Grenada, caribbean
- 5-20th september 2004
- winds reached 270km/h
- pressure 902 mb
- relativelt little rain
- generated 117 tornadoes
- waves reaching 40m but little storm surge
- primary impacts
- 39 deaths
- 85% of island destroyed
- 90% of homes damaged and destroyed
- 50% of population made homeless
- secondary impacts
- looting cost $800 million
- roads blocked by debris
- local flooding due to blocked drains
- loss of phone lines
- loss of power due to lines down
- tertiary impacts
- dmaage cost was $1.1 billion
- loss of export cash tee crops Eg nutmeg
- increase in genadas national debt
- loss of tourism and 60% jobs in tourism
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