Definition of Hurricane Gilbert

17 years after its devastating and deadly irruption, Hurricane Gilbert or Gilberto, continues to be one of the most sad memories of the areas it decimated: Northern Mexico, Texas, Jamaica, Central America, Yucatan Peninsula, Venezuela, Republic Dominicana, Haiti and the Windward Islands. Although we must say that this very strong tropical cyclone belonging to the Atlantic hurricane cycle hit Mexico hardest and that is why it is Cataloged as the most terrifying hurricane in the history of the country, it was even in Mexico where the highest number of human victims were registered.

With the numbers we will see more clearly why Gilbert left a impact tremendous... It reached maximum winds of 295 kilometers per hour, lasted about 16 days, between 3 and 19 September 1988, and with regard to material losses, an estimated five billion Dollars. Meanwhile, the fatal victims were more than three hundred deceased people and many disappeared.

Great intensity when it touches land in Jamaica and Mexico

It was formed in the Windward Islands and from there it intensified more and more and the alerts began. When it touches Jamaican land it makes its force and is considered the most important in intensity since 1951, uprooting trees, lines of electricity and flooding highly touristy areas such as Ocho Ríos.

When it arrived in Mexico, a few days later it was already classified as a hurricane in category five, a fact that shows the force with which he played territory Mexican. In addition to strong winds, in I usually de México was accompanied by very intense storms that triggered major floods when the Santa Catarina river overflowed in the city of Monterrey.

The most shocking thing about his time in Mexico is that he directly affected people in the realization of their daily lives. People were trapped on buses and lost their lives there.
The homes of more than a thousand Mexicans were totally destroyed and not to mention the consequences that a cyclone always generates with floods, lack of electricity and Water drinkable for long days.

From Mexico he traveled to the United States, more precisely to the state of Texas, where he generates a huge number of 29 tornadoes.

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