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Hurricane Dean as seen from MODIS on Terra at 1525 UTC August 18, 2007, south of the island of Hispaniola

The effects of Hurricane Dean in the Greater Antilles were spread over six countries and included 20 deaths. Hurricane Dean formed from a tropical wave on August 14 2007, in the Atlantic Ocean 1800 km (1100 miles) west of Cape Verde. The Cape Verde-type hurricane tracked steadily westward into the Caribbean Sea where it rapidly intensified. Its outer bands swept over all of the Greater Antilles and its storm surge was felt from the eastern side of Puerto Rico to western tip of Cuba. It brushed the island of Jamaica as a Category 4 hurricane before going on to strike Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula as a Category 5 hurricane.

National governments, domestic NGOs, and international aid agencies established hundreds of shelters, evacuated hundreds of thousands of people, raised millions of dollars of resources, and rallied thousands of rescue workers as the powerful hurricane churned through the Caribbean. Fortunately, and despite a number of near misses, Hurricane Dean did not make landfall in the Greater Antilles and the islands were spared the storm's worst strengths. Damages were mostly confined to Jamaica, where initial estimates of US$1.5 billion were revised to approximately US$310 million.

Preparations

Hispaniola

A tropical storm watch was issued for the south coast of the Dominican Republic at 11 p.m. AST August 16 (0300 UTC August 17).[1] On August 17 this tropical storm watch was upgraded to a tropical storm warning. Additionally a hurricane watch was issued from Cabo Beata to the Haitian border.[2] This was further upgraded that night with a hurricane warning from Barahona to the Haitian border.[3] Workers from World Vision pre-positioned food, clean water, medicines and emergency generators in the southern provinces where hurricane warnings had been issued.[4] 1,580 people were evacuated as the storm approached.[5]

A tropical storm watch was issued at 5:00 a.m. AST (0900 UTC) August 17 for the southwestern peninsula of Haiti from Port-au-Prince to the Dominican border.[6] This advisory was upgraded the next morning to a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch,[2] and that night was further upgraded to a hurricane warning.[7] The Haitian coastal authority advised all small craft to stay on port, while at Port-au-Prince, all flights to southern Haiti from Toussaint Louverture International Airport were canceled.[8] More than 1,000 people were evacuated from low-lying areas[5] and workers from World Vision moved food, clean water, medicines and emergency generators to the southern departments where hurricane warnings had been issued.[4]

Jamaica

On August 17 a hurricane watch was issued for Jamaica.[9] Prime Minister of Jamaica Portia Simpson-Miller convened an emergency meeting of Jamaica's national disaster preparedness council.[10] The Jamaican government finalized evacuation plans, including making the country's national arena a shelter, and relocating inmates from two maximum security prisons.[8] Political parties in the island suspended their campaigning operations for the August 27 national elections, to allow residents to prepare for the storm.[11] The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA), which was already responding to Hurricane Dean's impact in the Lesser Antilles, contacted the Jamaican Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management to confirm technical and logistics support, and to notify the Jamaican government that utilities teams had been placed on standby should they be needed. The North-West Caribbean Donor Group also met to consider what action might it might undertake in Dean's aftermath.[12]

On August 18 the hurricane watch was adjusted to a hurricane warning.[13] Curfews were put in place for some parts of the island, while off-duty essential personnel were called back to work. The United States confirmed that it would offer aid if it was needed.[14] Only one member of a United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination team arrived in Jamaica before all incoming flights were canceled.[15]

More than 1,000 schools and churches were converted to emergency shelters, but residents only occupied 47 of them before the storm's arrival. The country's high crime rate led islanders to fear for their belongings should they abandon their homes.[16][17] UNICEF prepared 4 emergency health kits and 1,000 water containers and Copa Airlines agreed to fly the supplies to Jamaica on its scheduled August 22 flight, if possible. The World Food Program prepared food stock in nearby Haiti, ready to move them to Jamaica if they were needed.[15]

Other islands

Infrared satellite image of Hurricane Dean on August 18 as it churned through the eastern Caribbean Sea south of Puerto Rico.

At 5 p.m. AST (2100 UTC) August 16 2007 a tropical storm watch was issued for Puerto Rico.[18] At 11 p.m. AST August 16 (0300 UTC August 17) this advisory was upgraded to a tropical storm warning.[1] The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, eager to make a good showing after its heavily criticized response to Hurricane Katrina, deployed a Federal Incident Response Support Team to the island ahead of Hurricane Dean. This five-member team of disaster management experts was equipped with satellite communication systems to provide video-teleconferencing and help make real-time assessments of any damage.[19]

On August 17 a tropical storm watch was issued for Cuba between the provinces of Camagüey and Guantánamo.[9] This was upgraded on the afternoon of August 18 to a tropical storm warning.[20] At 11 p.m. AST August 18 (0300 UTC August 19) a tropical storm watch was issued for portions of central Cuba: Ciego de Ávila, Sancti Spíritus, Cienfuegos, Matanzas, and Isla de la Juventud.[21] If necessary, soldiers and emergency officials were prepared to convert schools and other government buildings into temporary shelters.[8] More than 350,000 people were evacuated by the Civil Defense in the coastal provinces,[5][22] and the government in Havana suspended all tourist programs ahead of the storm.[14]

At 11 a.m. AST (1500 UTC) on August 18 a hurricane watch was issued for the Cayman Islands[13] and the Emergency Operations Centre was activated.[23] 12 hours later, at 11 p.m. AST (0300 UTC August 19), as Hurricane Dean continued to track west towards the islands, the hurricane watch was upgraded to a hurricane warning.[21] Major airlines added flights leaving the islands for tourists to evacuate.[14][24] Tourists were barred from entering the islands starting August 17.[24] A mandatory evacuation order was imposed on Little Cayman by Governor of the Cayman Islands Stuart Jack, and extra flights were initiated between Little Cayman and Cayman Brac.[25][26] On August 19, 19 schools and civic centers were converted to shelters: 15 on Grand Cayman, three on Cayman Brac, and, despite the mandatory evacuation order in effect, one on Little Cayman.[27] Two Royal Navy ships of the Atlantic Patrol Task (North), HMS Portland and RFA Wave Ruler, followed 240 km (150 miles) behind the storm in order to arrive at Cayman as soon after the hurricane as possible.[28]

Impact

Hurricane Dean passed just south of the Greater Antilles from August 17 to August 21. Having entered the Caribbean Sea as a Category 2 storm, it quickly strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane Puerto Rico before weakening slightly to Category 4 strength as it swept under the rest of the Greater Antilles.[29] It never made landfall in the island chain,[30] but at Category 4 strength the storm passed just 40 km (25 miles) south of Jamaica. Strengthening again as it passed the islands, Dean reattained Category 5 strength off the eastern tip of Cuba before making landfall in Mexico.[31] The massive storm's winds, rains, and storm surge endangered life and property throughout the island chain.[29]

Hispaniola

Hurricane Dean passed 270 km south of the Dominican Republic's capital, Santo Domingo, and although the island experienced relatively little wind,[32][33] heavy rain flooded the streets.[34] The moderate winds and heavy rains did not damage the agriculture sector as they did elsewhere in the Caribbean.[35] Six deaths were attributed to the effects of the hurricane. The strong wave activity on the southern coastline attracted a crowd of onlookers and a 16-year-old boy was swept out to sea and drowned as he watched 16-foot (4.8 m) swells break over a road in Santo Domingo.[36] Also, five fishermen drowned in the northern Santiago province after their boat capsized due to the effect of wind and torrential rain in the Tavera dam, near the town of Baitoa. The victims were fishing along with three others that managed to swim ashore, apparently ignoring warnings issued by civil defense authorities.[37] Rough surf destroyed at least five houses along the southern coast[38] and damaged 316.[5]

The outer fringes of Hurricane Dean swept over Haiti[32] bringing heavy squalls.[39] On Gonâve Island, power was cut to thousands of people, and some took shelter in schools and churches.[14] The roof of the Hopital St. Michel in Jacmel, damaged before the storm, leaked significantly leading to water damage in the operating room.[40] Two people were killed in Tiburon and Moron, towns in the south and southeast of the island, respectively. Seven other storm-related deaths were confirmed but few details were given.[30][41][42] Another four were injured in a sailboat after disregarding warnings to stay in port.[5]

Several hundred homes were destroyed due to the resulting landslides.[43] 5,154 people retreated to temporary shelters in the departments of South-East, Nippes, Centre, and Artibonite.[44] Hurricanes typically pose significant hazards to potable water in Haiti,[30] but Hurricane Dean produced only a modest 2.06 inches (52 mm) of rainfall.[45] As such, the storm caused no major problems with water and sanitation,[40] except in the town of Bainet, population 17,000, where the temperamental water system was compromised.[30]

Jamaica

Hurricane Dean floods a road in Kingston, Jamaica.

Flooding was reported on the east of the island, and mudslides on the northeast coast.[46] In Kingston, buildings collapsed[47] and houses had their roofing torn off by the strong winds, which felled trees and lampposts. A shoot-out between police and looters occurred in the parish of Clarendon.[46] Over 1,500 roofs were lost, primarily to the hurricane force winds.[48] 3,127 houses were heavily damaged, 1,582 of which were left totally uninhabitable.[49] Two-thirds of the homes in the southeastern parishes of Clarendon, St. Catherine, and Kingston/St. Andrew sustained significant damages.[29] One man was killed in Clarendon by a collapsing roof, and a 14-year-old girl in Whitehorses, St. Thomas was killed by rock damage to her home.[50] A third Jamaican was killed when he was struck by flying debris during the height of the storm.[51]

Hurricane Dean affected 248 roads: 10 were blocked in the Kingston metropolitan region,[52] 14 sections were blocked in St. Andrew, 43 were blocked in St. Catherine, 8 were blocked in the Western Region (Saint James, Hanover, Westmoreland, and Trelawny), and 110 were blocked in the Northeast region.[53] Furthermore, the road from Kingston to the airport was covered in sand, boulders, and downed power lines.[47]

A concrete waterfront house destroyed by Hurricane Dean in Kingston, Jamaica.

Agriculture damage was widespread. 40% of the sugarcane crop, 80-100% of the banana crop, 75% of the coffee trees under three years old, and 20% of the top layer of the cocoa crop were lost to the storm.[49] Insured damage in Jamaica was initially estimated estimated at around US$1.5 billion,[54] but post-storm analysis showed that it was closer to US$310 million.[55][56]

Other islands

Rain from Hurricane Dean closed several roads throughout Puerto Rico and there was heavy surf along the island's coast, but no deaths or injuries were reported.[57] The hurricane's outer bands swept over Cuba between August 19 and August 21, bringing heavy rain and high seas, but sparing the island its damaging winds. In the Cayman Islands, rain flooded roads and there were high waves along the coast, but no deaths or serious injuries were reported. There were localized power outages and the water supply was shut off briefly, but the rest of the island's infrastructure was unaffected. 2000 people weathered the storm in temporary shelters.[58]

Aftermath

Hurricane Dean's damage was moderate, considering its tremendous strength. It did not have severe or lasting effects on infrastructure, and the non-agricultural sectors of throughout the Greater Antilles recovered quickly.

Haiti

On August 23 the Haitian government sent food, sachets of potable water, mattresses and medicines to the town of Bainet in the South-East Department. On August 24 the Pan American Development Foundation sent food to all people living in temporary shelters and Venezuela delivered 11 tonnes of emergency food to the South-East Department in the form of 500 family bags. Hurricane assitance was then blended into the country's standard humanitarian assistance programs[30] and became indistinct from the country's continued poverty crisis.[59][60]

Jamaica

Heavy machinery clearing sand off the road to Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston, Jamaica, after it was buried by Hurricane Dean.

The World Food Program immediately placed 5,500 Jamaicans on complementary food assistance, a daily ration of 1900 kJ (450 kcal) of High Energy Biscuits, for two weeks.[61] On August 22, three days after the hurricane struck the island, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) sent USD$398,000 of emergency supplies to Jamaica's Norman Manley International Airport. These supplies included mattresses, blankets, plastic sheeting, hygiene kits and water containers.[48] The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) provided a US$200,000 grant to support the relief effort.[62] The Chinese Red Cross, despite dealing with Typhoon Sepat, sent US$30,000 to its Jamaican counterpart for the purchase of emergency relief supplies.[63]

On August 24 Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced that her government would provide JA$225 million in emergency assistance to the country's agriculture sector, especially the parishes of Portland, Clarendon, St. Thomas, Manchester, St. Catherine and St. Elizabeth. JA$100 million was immediately allocated to the purchase of fertilizers, JA$25 million to the Blue Mountain coffee farmers, and the Agriculture Ministry's JA$50 million fruit tree programme was accelerated.[64] She also announced that the National Housing Trust had established a JA$500 million programme to provide loans at 6% per annum for emergency repairs. The National Housing Trust also made $200 million available to the Hurricane Relief Fund. The government provided tarpaulins, 10,000 of which were shipped in after the storm, free of charge to patch houses with damaged roofs.[65]

The Jamaican general election scheduled for August 27 was postponed until September 3,[66] at which point they went ahead as planned.[67] Some accused Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller of unneccesarily extending the state of emergency (and related curfews) to maintain her political control[67] as predictions at the time suggested that she and her party would be ousted by the opposition.[68] She and her party ultimately did lose the election, although Dean's fortunately light damage was not thought to have been a major factor.[69][70]

By the end of the summer on 2008, Banana production in Jamaica was returning to pre-Dean levels. With the help of JA$1.1 billion (US$15.5 million) of aid from the EU's Banana Support Programme, thousands of acres were replanted. Banana chips were the first products ready for export at the beginning of the summer, with fresh banana production following shortly thereafter as the agricultural industry returned to normal.[71]

See also

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