This year's hurricane season hit my country very hard.

But 10 months later, on July 14 2005, another hurricane, Emily, hit Grenada.

As reported in last year's working paper (A AC.109 2004 14), in September 2003, Bermuda was hit by hurricane Fabian, which was the most powerful hurricane to hit the Territory in over 50 years.

Hurricane Jeanne hit Haiti, killing an estimated 1,500 people. Another 300,000 were injured or suffered property damage.

Other panellists spoke of similar experiences of devastation and vulnerability after hurricane Ivan hit the Caribbean in 2004.

When Grenada was hit by Hurricane Ivan in September of 2004, it was the entire 344 square kilometre island, with its 100,000 inhabitants, that sustained damage.

Hurricane

Likewise, we express our feelings of sorrow to our Central American brethren, who are being hard hit by the floods caused by Hurricane Stan in that region.

Then, in 1980, there was a hurricane, Hurricane Allen.

Hurricane Ivan, the most powerful to hit the region in 10 years, caused damage to 90 per cent of the homes in Grenada, leaving some 60,000 people homeless.

Ivan, the most powerful hurricane to hit the region in a decade, strengthened into category 4 as it struck Grenada, bringing sustained winds of 220 kilometres per hour.

A hurricane.

The island had already been hit by an earlier major disaster in 1989, in the shape of Hurricane Hugo, which caused extensive damage to over 90 per cent of housing.

A Democratic Hurricane

It's a hurricane!

I hit it. I hit it, I hit it, I hit it!

The Atlantic hurricane season in 2004 and its early start in 2005 caused significant loss of life and damage to property in the Caribbean, where the most vulnerable were the hardest hit.

Yes, the hurricane cellar.

He hit me, he hit me, he hit me.

Hit him. Hit him!

A hit? What's a hit?

There's a hurricane in Cuba

It's rare for a tropical depression to hit Arizona, but that's exactly what's likely to happen early happen early next week as Hurricane Rosa's remaining energy tracks across the Desert Southwest, delivering flash flooding risks.

At some level, of course, he is right. Today s world is one of fast changing currents, where a region flourishes one day, and the next its factories collapse economically as if hit by hurricane Katrina.

Epiphany hit me. Something hit me.

Don't hit me. Don't hit me.

A hit, a very palpable hit.

HHe hit me! He hit me!

Well hit, sir! Very well hit!

Just a month ago, before Hurricane Katrina hit, a hurricane specialist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kerry Emmanuel, published a paper in the British science magazine Nature, showing that tropical storms are now lasting one and a half times longer than they did just a few decades earlier, with spinning winds that are now 50 per cent more powerful.

a hurricane on my wedding day.

Rolling clouds stir up a hurricane

A hit on the superstructure. A hit again!

Hit it now! Boy, eh? Yeah, hit it.

Don't hit a woman. Don't hit a woman.

Then we hit Antietam and hit 'em hard.

Hurricane in the United States of America

Hit

Hit!

Today's hit single is not last year's hit single.

Don't hit the desk, hit me if you dare.

The Minister stated that in relation to the fiscal year 2003 2004, the cost of the overall damage caused by hurricane Fabian, which hit Bermuda in September 2003 (see para. 21 below), was estimated at 160 to 180 million.

After the hurricane, their house was a wreck.

Dominica has had its share of hurricane devastation.

The year of the hurricane. 1940, that was.