| Show hurri H hurricane cane pays its regular regul ar visits V 1 s its 0 ti typhoons afons brother sweeps west indian islands an bally in fall months new york once abre the terror of the hurricane that sleeps in the doldrums of 0 tile the south atlantic ling haq been roused to sweep over the islands that tt it periodically visits the great that struck santo domingo recently and caused heavy loss of life had entered the caribbean sen sea earlier in the week passing north of martinique ti touching dominica and amov ing in A northwesterly direction along a path that iturri hurricanes canes have traversed many times before september to Is the great month for the hurricanes that time and again have cost hundreds of lives and mil lions of dollars in property losses the season begins toward the end of july and usually ends in october although there are november hurricanes As to the path they take these brothers of f the typhoon are capricious sometimes etim es they spend their full force harmlessly at sea sean and bd only scientific observers in their recording laboratories abid and captains 1 of stray ships who observe ti the ie portents afar know of their existence at other times they run the full course of those caribbean islands that stretch tike aby a bypath by path of stepping stones from south america to the north Amerl cani coast three decades have passed since the roost most destructive of nil all modern hurricanes killed people in galveston A tidal wave overwhelmed the city end and the fury of the waters completed tile the work that the fury of the winds began that overpowering wind stream went along a course that stretched in a wide are arc across the northern hemisphere the hurricane originated somewhere in the atlantic between the cost of africa and the caribbean sea from there it went across porto rico and haiti glanced off the north coast of cuba end and crossed the gulf of mexico to galveston long 1 ona Pa path gathof of destruction but it did nat end with tile the galveston ton disaster the hurricane went inland through the united states swung eastward again to cross the great lakes crossed newfoundland end and then swept up the north atlantic to iceland ending its mad career la in arctic waters A hurricane moves along its course like a gigantic tumbleweed tumbles eed rolling across a prairie it Is a whirl of wind with ii a usual velocity of from go 80 to miles an hour though higher velocities have been recorded the whole storm moves forward at a rate of from 10 lo to 15 males an hour within the center there Is a partial vacuum this Is usually about 20 miles wide the storm area rolling around it Is often or miles wide cutting a swath with its furious power of wind and rain through the country it traverses how allow does docs a hurricane originate the ilie answer to that question cannot be stated but most scientists bellevo believe that in some small sea area below tile the paths of the trade winds tile the equatorial heat causes a central mass of air to rise starting a vertical circulation eventually the rising air reaches a level of sufficient cold to change its water vapor to drops of water this produces what Is called heat condensation if the rising air mass Is s small mail a thunderstorm Is formed but if the development Is of sufficient magnitude a hurricane may be un oil its way to creation the heat liberated establishes relatively high temperatures in tile the rising mass accelerating tile the circulation cu lation and tile the rate of condensation this recurring process la Is probably the manner in which tile the hurricane revolving an tu a counter clock wise atso direction as it travels maintains itself the devasia devastation tion that the hurricane leaves in its wake Is a phenomenon known to all who have lived in its ita region lost last september a hurricane visited nassau in the bahamas that damaged practically every building on the island many lives were lost for days the city was hooded flooded and in darkness telephones rele phones were out of commission and it was some time before communication could be established with the outs outside ade world even by radio the sea wall aas was broken in several places by the force of the wind driven sea many vessels anchored in the harbor were wrecked boats were swept up out of shewa the water and carried across roads to land near the steps of residences florida has many times felt the force of tile the hurricanes that sweep through the caribbean the disaster of 1020 1920 Is still vivid la in memories it was first noticed on september 14 the next morning it was north of porto rico and on the afternoon of the sixteenth it passed over lonely turks island twenty four hours later tile the storm had crossed the balia baha roas inns and ou on the morning of september 18 it was battering the florida towns fit at the end of the peninsula dy by the afternoon of the next neat day the hurricane had crossed tile the northern bight of tile the gulf of mexico and was approaching pro aching pensacola where it renewed its havoc an inevitable visitor the hurricane is a part of life in tho the west indies the natives look for it as practically an inevitable occurrence during the hurricane months and more often than not they are correct in their tianua annual I 1 expectation to have their houses blown down their crops ruined and much of their personal property destroyed i Is a part of the implacable scheme me of things in some years however there are no violent hurricanes merely gales that I 1 blow thein themselves selves out quickly and cause little or no damage but tile the residents know that the altered course of events Is not permanent with a philosophy founded securely upon experience with insecurity aliey th ey continue to date family and local events as of before or after their spectacular storms porto rico has not yet recovered from the hurricane of 1928 more than people were killed almost persons persona were left homeless band and the material los losses es were estimated around that storm entered the island as the east central part it plowed d its course at a rate of more than ahan miles an hour through the central part th ahn it disappeared from the northwest corner although th eweather man cannot control tile the hurricane lie he has with the aid of radio MAIO so prefect cd ed his system of reporting any tropical disturbance tur bance that the storm is plotted almost as soon as it makes its appearance pe when a hurricane develops in the the news Is promptly broadcast to vessels at sea and the path Is traced day by day due warning Is given to 4 ports port likely to be involved |
