HURRICANE GEORGES- Sept. 21, 1998
Images of Hurricane
Path and Meteorology
Digital
Photos from J. Thomlinson, ITES Remote Sensing
Impact
at El Verde Field Station-
(Luquillo Experimental Forest)
at urban areas (Playa
Azul, Luquillo, etc.)
The people
"...the hardest thing to deal with
is the depression that follows.."
"...en estos momentos asi uno esta
en mas contacto con sus sentimientos humanos .."
"..the worst thing was that it lasted
too long.."
" ...all that you see is brown, a
brown fuzz covering the mountains. If you didn’t know any better it would
be hard to tell what had happened. It looks like a severe drought has struck.
The devastation along Rt 3 is more telling. Just about every power pole
is cracked, leaning, or down. ...
...In the three weeks that have passed
since the storm most of the power poles in and around San Juan and along the
northeast coast have been removed and replaced. It has been amazing to watch
the input of effort..."
"...The unusual thing about Hurricane
Georges was that it selected a path over (almost) the maximum number of
Caribbean residents possible, during a year when not much was expected of
the Atlantic hurricanes."