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Maroc Maroc - WN.COM - Environment - 09/Nov 18:16

Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba

Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared toward Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island's president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated—1 of every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and deaths. By the time Melissa hit Cuba, it was downgraded from a category 5 to a still incredibly dangerous category 3 hurricane. The sea was surging up to 3.5m, torrents of rain were half a meter deep, and winds were screaming at 200km per hour. Hurricane Melissa shows what academics studying disasters have long emphasized: disasters are shaped as much by social...

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