Hazardous Environments Case Studies
- Created by: cleomos
- Created on: 23-05-16 22:00
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Hurricanes Katrina and Mitch
Comparative impacts of a tropical storm in an LIC and an HIC
Mitch
- Affected LICs like Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador
- 1998, tropical depression began in Caribbean
- Became category 5 quickly
- Meteorologists couldn't accurately predict where Mitch was heading
- Slow movement in Honduras
- Intense rainfall = widespread flooding, destroyed buildings, roads, bridges, crops
- 2nd longest lasting category 5 hurricane
- Over 17,000 dead or missing overall, 2 million homeless in Honduras
- Cost $10 billion for damage
- Short-term emergency aid from NGOs
- Set back development
Katrina
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