Hurricane Irma Impact

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Impact of hurricane Irma
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Hurricane Irma swept through the coast of Florida sweeping through and destroying a tenth of anything on its path that ranged from people to property. The destruction is witnessed from the Caribbean islands such as the Virgin Islands and the Bermuda Island all the way to Miami Florida. The State of Miami is the worst hit with majority of the residence still leaving in hard conditions days after the hurricane past. For instance, air condition and power remains a huge challenge to the locals. This paper seeks to analysis both the social economic and physical impact of the hurricane to the population of Miami. The paper also seeks to highlight well laid plans for the locals to prepare for such disasters in …show more content…
For example, eight elderly people died in a nursing home as a result of lack of air conditioning facilities. As if that is not enough, the Florida Power Limited (FPL) customers have a contractual obligation with the company not power their homes with alternate power source such as solar panels especially during power outage. This policy has many residences voicing their frustrations, on the policy that is opposed to an alternative means of electricity generating that would have otherwise acted a support grid to the main grid in occasions such as Hurricane Irma storm. Moreover, the residence lament that in the resident past the FPL has been increasing rates claiming that it is meant to be channeled towards disaster …show more content…
For instance, in Florida Keys which experienced category four storms, 65 percent of the homes were completely damaged while only 20 percent of the homes survived the stormed unhinged. Majority of the workers in the state of Miami are not insured against floods which further complicates the situation. Therefore, they are forced to rebuild on derisory government assistance, which comes in form soft loans. According to (AccuWeather), the cost of the Hurricane Irma is $120 billion. This has a direct impact on the economy of the state of Miami and the National economic growth for the remaining months of the
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