Hurricanes like the recent Hurricane Ike remind us all that in the battle between mother nature and humans, mother nature always wins, especially when you view the photos below in this post..
With the mass destruction of Hurricane Katrina still fresh on people’s minds (and many people still living in government housing in and around New Orleans), it was no wonder people fearfully geared up and bunkered down in preparation for Hurricane Ike as it gained increasing momentum and power rolling through the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.
Making landfall in the Caribbean as a category 3 hurricane, Ike left a huge path of destruction as it crossed over Turks and Caicos, Haiti and Cuba before making its way into the Gulf of Mexico and headed straight for Louisiana and Texas. Ike has been blamed for 61 people in the United States alone, among 143 deaths in Haiti, where poor preparation in an already fragile economy and the strength of the storm sadly wiped out huge areas of the island.
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These photos are incredible. Some of them, taken out of context, are almost comical. But when you think of the devastation and the loss and how little help some of these people will get in Haiti and Cuba, and even in the US states it’s truly horrible.
My sister lives in Houston and got extremely lucky with only minor wind damage, but even now power and phone outages are still commonplace. It seems these powerful storms are hitting land more frequently than in years past. Is this to become part of life in these parts of the USA and the world?
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