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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Democratic Hurricane

Epiphany hit me. Something hit me.

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

Hurricane in the United States of America

After the hurricane, their house was a wreck.

Dominica has had its share of hurricane devastation.

Hit me.

Hit me.

They can handle a hurricane that comes and goes.

In the Caribbean, Hurricane Ivan laid Grenada to waste.

Special communiqué on the damage caused by Hurricane Stan

Special communiqué on the damage caused by Hurricane Stan

During the hurricane, you had MSNBC posting about the hurricane on their blog, updating it frequently. This was possible because of the easy nature of blogging tools.

Why hit him?

She hit him.

Almost exactly one year ago, Hurricane Ivan devastated Grenadian society.

117th plenary meeting Hurricane in the United States of America

Don't get hit again,

Tom hit a triple.

Earthquakes frequently hit Japan.

Did somebody hit Tom?

Hurricane Rosa's remnants to bring widespread heavy rain to southwest US

Hurricane Katrina's victims, too, are in our thoughts, prayers and actions.

The total energy of a hurricane is found by multiplying the intensity of the hurricane by its duration. This, too, has risen sharply, and more is in store as temperatures rise.

He recalled that his country had recently been hard hit by Hurricane Jeanne, which had destroyed homes, communication routes and port facilities, as well as tourist infrastructure, at a time when the country was redoubling its efforts to revitalize its economy, and welcomed the spirit of solidarity displayed by the international community.

You hit the solid rock.

You hit the viability threshold.

Asia s BRICs Hit the Wall

She hit the ball hard.

Don't let him hit you.

Katrina (1967) was a hurricane within 40 miles of the AZ border.

And then suddenly, he learns that there's going to be a hurricane.

The territorial Government in 2004 resolved the problem of the federal loans covering 1989 hurricane Hugo and managed also the full cancellation of the loans taken out following 1995 hurricane Marilyn (see para.