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Sudden Destruction!—How Have They Coped?Awake!—1990 | February 22
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Sudden Destruction!—How Have They Coped?
WHEN Hurricane Hugo swept over Guadeloupe on Saturday, September 16, 1989, the night seemed endless. “A NIGHT OF NIGHTMARE” it was called. Next, Montserrat was terrorized by the 140 mile-per-hour [230 km/hr] winds. More than 20 died on these Caribbean islands.
Continuing its assault, Hugo mauled the Leeward Islands of St. Kitts and Nevis. The next night it brutalized the U.S. Virgin Islands of St. Croix and St. Thomas. The destruction left behind on St. Croix was almost beyond belief. Moving on, about noon Monday the hurricane flattened the northeastern part of Puerto Rico, especially devastating the tiny offshore islands of Vieques and Culebra.
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Sudden Destruction!—How Have They Coped?Awake!—1990 | February 22
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Yet, because warnings were heeded, only about 26 people in the United States died during the storm, and a few more than that in the Caribbean. On the other hand, economic losses are gigantic, running into many thousands of millions of dollars.
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Sudden Destruction!—How Have They Coped?Awake!—1990 | February 22
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U.S.A.
Charleston
Atlantic Ocean
Puerto Rico
Guadeloupe
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