Most of the deaths happened in Florida.ĭamage in the U.S. Irma was responsible for more than 100 deaths in the United States. This paper aims to evaluate and describe variation in the federal disaster responses to 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, compared with the need and. We had 5 to 15 inches of rain in our state.Ī record 6.5 million Floridians evacuated ahead of Irma and hundreds of thousands headed to shelters. The memories of surviving Hurricane Maria still haunt people in Puerto Rico, four years after the storm wreaked havoc on the U.S. Wind gusts reaching 120 mph (190 km/h), coupled with over 6 inches (150 mm) of rainfall and a storm surge of 12 feet (3.7 m) caused over 790 million (2002 USD) in damage to Louisiana. While most of the tornadoes were on the east coast, an EF-2 tornado hit Polk City. Octo Hurricane Lili made landfall on the morning of October 3 near Intracoastal City, as a weakening category 1 hurricane. There were 21 confirmed tornadoes in Florida. While we didn’t have sustained hurricane force winds here, we did have wind gusts of 60 to 90 mph in our area. The eye of Irma moved north through Polk County then toward eastern Citrus County before moving to North Florida and Georgia. Irma was weakening but still brought damaging winds to our area into the morning hours of Sept. Hurricane Nicholas made landfall along the Texas coast Tuesday, bringing the threat of up to 20 inches of rainfall to the same area hit by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and storm-battered Louisiana. Many people were amazed that for a short period of time the bay was dry. It made its way up to Southwest Florida and made another landfall near Marco Island as a Category 3 hurricane, leaving damage behind in cities like Naples and Fort Myers.Īt first, the water levels in Tampa Bay dropped due to the strong offshore winds on the north side of Irma’s circulation. On SeptemIrma made landfall in Cudjoe Key as a Category 4 hurricane. Irma made five landfalls in the Caribbean before making a turn toward Florida. Irma became a hurricane and strengthened to a Category 5 in the Atlantic. It all started with a tropical wave in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on Aug. Irma was one of the strongest and costliest Atlantic hurricanes on record. It’s been two years since Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida.

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