Puerto Rico has a long history of landfalls and nearmisses

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http://stormcarib.com/climatology/TJSJ_all_isl.htm

For those who might not know the history of canes and nearmisses that Puerto Rico has been thru in the past centuries here I am sharing this piece of information.

Puerto Rico is located at hurricane alley and there are the results of being in this area.Plenty of landfalls of storms and hurricanes some of them majors but also many near misses and that is why every year here in the island we prepare because you never know if this will be the year that a cane will hit the island.Of course the records of the canes in the 19th centurie are suspisious because at that time no sattelites were up there to monitor the systems.

The most strongest cane ever to make landfall as a cat 5 was in 1928 when San Felipe came with 160 mph maximum winds with gusts of 200 mph and caused 312 deaths.

The last cane to make landfall was Georges in 1998 so it will be 8 years in september 21 when Georges made landfall but will this 2006 will see a cane making landfall in Puerto Rico?Well time will tell but the best we can do here is to be prepared for the worst and hope for the best that those Cape Verde systems go away from the caribbean but we will see about the pattern that will be in the atlantic at the time of the peak by august and september.