http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Pauline
Probably the most forgotten hurricane of the last 25 years, and probably the worst hurricane to ever hit Mexico.

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Derek Ortt wrote:it's overlooked because it is the EPAC
Even Hawaii hits are overlooked here (and part of the reason why my ignore list is long). Remember the total lack of interest in Flossie...
Coredesat wrote:Derek Ortt wrote:it's overlooked because it is the EPAC
Even Hawaii hits are overlooked here (and part of the reason why my ignore list is long). Remember the total lack of interest in Flossie...
Quoted for emphasis, this is a pretty serious problem. These sorts of storms make the apathy toward other basins (or other countries, i.e. Dean and Felix) quite irritating.
At any rate, this was a major disaster for some very poor areas of Mexico. Nearly 400 dead, plus $9 billion is huge for Mexico.
CrazyC83 wrote:RL3AO wrote:$9B in damage for a Mexico storm is incredible.
That is even higher than Wilma's damage in Mexico (about $7.5B).
Tampa Bay Hurricane wrote:My prayers are always with victims in the
path of the storm.
And Thank you to those in rememberance of
this storm.
But I would like to correct one false assumption:
I don't see why this is being portrayed as people
not caring for other countries. If a storm doesn't hit your
area, you probably won't remember it, and if it does, you
will. So the point is people aren't insensitive just
because they "forgot" about other storms in
other places, it's just because it didn't effect
them, so they don't remember them. That's the
way memory works, unless someone is a climate
scientist and memorizes and studies hurricanes on a
daily basis.
In so many recent threads people are saying that people
don't care about other countries. We DO care, but we won't
remember an event unless it had some association in memory
such as severe impact. So please there is no need
to make generalized assumptions about people
not caring.
Thank you.
Aslkahuna wrote:Ismael in 1995 had a remarkably high death toll for being only a Cat 1. It was a small storm that developed quickly before making landfall over Los Mochis. Hundreds of fishermen were caught at sea in the Sea of Cortez and 200+ were killed or missing as a result of the storm. The name was retired and initially replaced with Israel but that was quickly changed to Ivo for political reasons despite the fact that Israel is a fairly common male name in Mexico.
Steve
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