Lives will have to rebuilt in Dean hit areas of Mexico. Hurricane Dean struck the countryside devastating several areas and inundating many more.
Hurricane Dean traveled to Gulf of Mexico after hitting Jamaica hard. As it hit the Mexico coast, grail winds roared uprooting many trees, displacing roofs of many houses and dislocating many after their dwellings were flooded with water. Many had earlier abandoned their lodging for the fear of drowning and moved into safer areas away from the coast. Many lost their means of livelihood especially the fishermen who could not venture into the rising ocean because of the ruthless storm. And the damage to the marine life isn’t yet known.
More so, Mexico’s only nuclear plant Laguna Verde remains on the brink of danger particularly because the storm hit the area north of it the hardest. Mexicans will be hoping that the storm passes off peacefully without damaging the nuclear site, which if harmed might result in a nuclear leak that can be lethal for man and marine life.
With Hurricane Dean traveling at a furious speed of 100 -120 mph, the damage is instantly being done, especially when the storm is recurring. There is now risk of flooding after the storm brought shrieking winds followed by trails of rainy water. The fear of rivers overflowing due to pressure of superincumbent load is no less.
Hurricanes that have become quite frequent and intense these days are the result of pressure and temperature differentiation between the sea surface and the atmosphere above. Few opine that ever-increasing mercury levels have stimulated a cycle of storms, of which hurricanes hit quite frequently.
Caribbean and U.S. Gulf coast must learn to live with recurrent hurricanes particularly in this age of global warming, which is instantly filling the atmosphere with emissions, raising the temperature levels.
Via: Washingtonpost
