Hurricane Bob
HURRICANE BOB
The world is filled with many wonders and natural disasters that are powerful enough to remember forever. It has always historically seemed that most natural disasters are weather related and Mother Nature in her fury can be some of the most awesome spectacles on the planet. Hurricane Bob was one of the most catastrophic and vigorous natural disasters to hit the east coast United States in the past century. On August 16th 1991, a tropical depression formed 200 miles to the east of the Bahamas. As the storm slowly moved to the northwest, twenty four hours later it became Hurricane Bob, a vastly powerful Hurricane with a scale reading of 3 out of 5. Bob moved up the east coast accelerating toward Cape Hatteras where it peaked with winds of 135mph. It continued to do so as the Hurricane then arrived in Massachusetts and Cape Cod. This is where most of the disaster and corruption took place.
With the Hurricane at full force, communities of Rhode Island and Southeast Massachusetts were highly impacted. The 100mph plus winds did the most damage to homes, buildings, power lines, and trees. Cape Cod was virtually inaccessible on the roadways and highways. Trees down and all sorts of blowing debris blocked them. Practically all of the rivers and lakes both salt water and fresh were completely over flown. Cars in certain areas were up to the windshield and even the majority of SUV’s couldn’t trek their way trough the storm. On the Outskirts of Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard were devastated as well. Because, they are both small islands off the coast, the hurricane waves and rain put a serious hurting on the cranberry and grape fields and all farming was demolished. Storm surges in Narragansett Bay peaked at 11.5 feet higher than normal and power outage around Southeast Massachusetts, and Rhode Island was at 80-90 percent. With 100 percent power outage in Cape Cod making the environment a complete state of emergency....
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