Hurricane Season 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMMpVtzjPSE

Tropical Storm Nate expected to form and may strike U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane Sunday

 

Puerto Rico has begun to raise it's death toll numbers. They are now up to 34 deaths directly attributed to Hurricane Maria. The numbers will still rise. Right now they have a handful of deaths they are trying to categorize.

Nineteen people were killed directly by the storm — by drowning, being buried in mudslides, struck by falling objects or otherwise, Governor Rosselló said. He said the others had died indirectly — from a heart attack or suicide, or because they languished without oxygen or necessary medical care as hospitals floundered without power and patients were cut off from care.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/puerto-rico-death-toll-maria.html

 

Puerto Rico's death toll will go higher, I believe.


The government calls them "indirect deaths" – those who died after the violent storm: heart attack victims, people on kidney dialysis machines that failed, people who fell off roofs inspecting storm damage, and people killed in auto accidents on highways made more treacherous from Maria's destruction.
"So far after the storm we have had 49 dead bodies," says Rodriguez. Earlier this week, the governor of Puerto Rico raised the official fatality figure for Hurricane Maria from 16 people to 34. But with unofficial reports like the one from Arecibo, that number is expected to rise. http://www.npr.org/2017/10/05/555796327/following-disaster-teams-in-puerto-rico

 

http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-storm-nate-nhc/tropical-storm-nate-kills-10-in-central-america-heads-for-u-s-idUKKBN1CA1DD

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I hate that.

 

Sending positive thoughts and prayers to all here who live in the path of Nate. Ugh, so over these storms! :/

 

That one may give us some much-needed rain by about Tuesday or Wednesday (here in Connecticut).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZHWbFlIHk

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTSlRWqJbr8

 

Death tolls from hurricane Maria, in Puerto Rico, still have not been figured out.

The only deaths certified so far are 45.

Some people think it could be as high as 450.

Gathering reports and deciding how many deaths are attributable to the storm has been difficult.

• According to El Vocero newspaper, 350 bodies are being stored at the Institute of Forensic Sciences (equivalent to the state medical examiner's office), many of which are still awaiting autopsies. In the report, Héctor Pesquera, secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Public Safety, did not say how many, if any, of the cadavers were there before the storm. (On Sunday, Pesquera denied claims that there was a backlog of unexamined bodies.)

“I don’t think there will be hundreds of deaths, but we will see,” Pesquera toldreporters on Sunday. “We can’t speculate if there will be 100 or 200.” https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/10/11/16424356/puerto-rico-official-hurricane-maria-death-toll