Word: caribbean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...satellite pictures it resembled a living creature, angrily swirling and pulsing, a one-eyed monster of awesome dimensions. In a vortex of turbulent weather spanning 450 miles, the whirling body of the hurricane seemed to have a mind and will of its own as it marched across the Caribbean, devastating almost everything in its path...
...this century. Its counterclockwise wind speed peaked at an estimated 200 m.p.h. at 10,000 ft. and 175 m.p.h. at ground level; its 26.13-in. barometric pressure was the lowest ever recorded. Gilbert was blamed for at least 100 deaths and billions of dollars in damage in the Caribbean and Mexico. An additional 200 people . were feared drowned after a rain-swollen river jumped its banks and overturned four buses Saturday in Monterrey, Mexico. But highly accurate tracking and early warnings prevented more widespread loss of life. The storm ranked well below the toll of recent killer hurricanes like David...
...death toll from the storm's onslaught through the Caribbean islands and the Yucatan was at least 36, and estimates of the damage have reached $8 billion...
...hurricane, traveling westward across the Caribbean Sea, was upgraded yesterday to Category 5, the strongest and most deadly type of hurricane. Such storms have winds greater than 155 mph and cause catastrophic damage...
...Navy turned over to the Coast Guard last year. According to the House Government Operations Committee, the Coast Guard uses the Hawkeyes just 100 hours a month. Moreover, the planes are based in Norfolk, Va., 1,500 nautical miles from their surveillance area of southern Florida and the Caribbean...