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    A major hurricane destroyed over 25,000 homes, left 175,000 people homeless, and killed 130,000 people. Critical infrastructure like roads, bridges, power lines and water supplies were severely damaged, leaving over 1.3 million homes without electricity and contaminating drinking water. Hundreds of villages and acres of forest were wiped out. The hurricane caused over $1.2 billion in insurance claims and forced more than 4 million people to face starvation due to the widespread destruction of homes, businesses, crops and livestock.

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    A major hurricane destroyed over 25,000 homes, left 175,000 people homeless, and killed 130,000 people. Critical infrastructure like roads, bridges, power lines and water supplies were severely damaged, leaving over 1.3 million homes without electricity and contaminating drinking water. Hundreds of villages and acres of forest were wiped out. The hurricane caused over $1.2 billion in insurance claims and forced more than 4 million people to face starvation due to the widespread destruction of homes, businesses, crops and livestock.

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    Hurricanes LEDC and MEDC

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    A major hurricane destroyed over 25,000 homes, left 175,000 people homeless, and killed 130,000 people. Critical infrastructure like roads, bridges, power lines and water supplies were severely damaged, leaving over 1.3 million homes without electricity and contaminating drinking water. Hundreds of villages and acres of forest were wiped out. The hurricane caused over $1.2 billion in insurance claims and forced more than 4 million people to face starvation due to the widespread destruction of homes, businesses, crops and livestock.

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    •Poorly constructed buildings

    •25,000 homes destroyed


    blown away
    •175,000 people homeless
    •Hundreds of villages wiped out
    •82,000 businesses destroyed
    •130,000 people killed
    •52 roads blocked
    •All food supplies lost and
    •5311 m of power cable drinking water contaminated
    destroyed
    •Half a million cattle drowned
    •1.3 million homes left without and 63 hectares of crops
    electricity destroyed
    •100’s of acres of forest •Most roads and bridges
    destroyed damaged
    •30 deaths •Electricity cut off for months
    •Insurance claims in excess of •More than 4 million faced with
    $1.2 billion starvation
    Hurricanes!
    LO: to describe the differences in effects between
    MEDC’s and LEDC’s
    Read the two coloured information arrows on Hurricane
    Andrew and the cyclone in Bangladesh on pages 102 and
    103 in the Key Geography books

    Draw a table like the one at the bottom of page 102 and
    use the information you have read to complete it
    showing the differences in preparations between
    Florida and Bangladesh

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