Hurricanes

• Energy from warm sea, die out over land.
• Heat from the land sucks them quickly towards the Land e.g from Atlantic to North America.
• Different wind speeds= different catagory.
• Winds tend to blow Westerly e.g. West coast of Africa gets non-few hurricanes.
• TYPHOONS- Pacific Ocean (e.g. North China)
• CYCLONES- Indian Ocean (e.g. SE Africa)
• HURRICANES- Atlantic Ocean (e.g. America)
• Cold Ocean currents can prevent hurricanes e.g Peruvian on South American Coast.
• El Nino years- hurricanes are more frequent

MEDC:

• 113 casualties in USA , 2 in Canda.
• 1 person missing in USA
• $50bn in property damage.
• Impacted US elections.
• Fundraising got $41million in 1 week

LEDC:

• 54 causalties in Haiti, 11 in Cuba, 2 in Bahamas and 1 in Jamaica.
• 21 people missing in Haiti.
• Property damage- $2bn in Cuba, $55,2million in Jamaica & $300million in Bahamas.
• 200,000 left homeless in Haiti.
• UN Sent aid to 500,000 people in Santiage de Cuba, Cuba.

• Info from Satellites and land & sea recording stations.
• Hurricanes follow erratic path do prediction is normally no more than 12-18hours in advance.
• USA set out compulsory evacuation in red 'top priority zones.
• LEDCs have made some progress in predictions and evacuations helping to lower death toll.
• The NY Stock exchange was closed for the 1st time since 9/11. False predictions can be costly to the economy. 
• All flights leaving New Jersey were cancelled.
• People managed to 'tweet' services for help when phone lines were down but still got 3G.

• Hurricanes are naturally occuring but may be enhanced by global warming.
• Sea temperatures have risen by 0.6c in Atlantic were the hurricane has formed.
• Sea levels have risen 1 foot around New York and New Jersey over the past 100 years.
• Some scientists believe the blocking high pressure which pushed it in land was caused by global warming.

• 1.5million people affected.
• 138 dead or missing.
• $4bn worth of economic damage.
• 450,000 homes destroyed.
• 600,000 hectacres of farmland lost along with 60% of farming impliments.
• 75% hospitals or clinics destroyed.
• Diahorrea, dysentery and skin infections spread amongst survivors.

• Lack of info- confusion amongst aid & rescue services.
• Government refused to admit scale of disaster & were reluctant to accept foriegn aid. 
• Food was left with monks rather than untruseted government agencies.
• Donor countries pleged $50bn but U.S. & French ships were refused ebtry to Bura's ports.

• 200,000 never returned to the area.
• Homes that were destroyed and some were never rebuilt.
• Design faults with levees failed as they were built too low and water seeped through them.
• FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) were blamed for poor evacuation error and poor emergency response.
• Managing director of FEMA lost his job.
• President George Bush was crtiticised for not reacting quick enough.

• $125bn total damage, most expensive in U.S. history.
• 68,000 left unemployed.
• 973 deaths.
• 80% of New Oreleans is below sea level, this was flooded.
• Food, shelter and water supplies quickly depleted.
• Charities & volunteers came to help distribute aid.
• Damage to oil refinary caused a price hike in fuel costs.