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Hurricane Mitch:The story.....

In an awesome display of power and destruction, Hurricane Mitch will be remembered as the most deadly hurricane to strike the Western Hemisphere in the last two centuries! Not since the Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed approximately 22,000 people in the eastern Caribbean, was there a more deadly hurricane. Hurricane Mitch struck Central America with such viciousness that it was nearly a week before the magnitude of the disaster began to reach the outside world. The death toll was reported as 11,000 with thousands of others missing. More than three million people were either made homeless or severely affected. In this extremely poor third world region of the globe, estimates of the total damage from the storm were over $5 billion.

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