Impacts on the community
The main effects of tropical cyclones include heavy rain, strong wind, large storm surges at landfall, and tornadoes. The destruction from a tropical cyclone depends mainly on its intensity, its size, and its location. After the cyclone has passed, devastation often continues. Standing water can cause the spread of disease, and transportation or communications infrastructure may have been destroyed, hampering clean-up and rescue efforts.
Hurricanes can impact in many ways on our communities as well as the people and its surrounding environment.
Hurricanes cause the destruction of houses and buildings in its surroundings which displaces people and all possessions are lost in the disaster. It can also widely affect the environment with things such as impact on the supply of clean drinking water and even food supplies. In the case of floods an tsunami's the drinking water becomes unsafe for people to drink from due to diseases in the water caused by the devastation of the hazard.
Hurricanes can impact in many ways on our communities as well as the people and its surrounding environment.
Hurricanes cause the destruction of houses and buildings in its surroundings which displaces people and all possessions are lost in the disaster. It can also widely affect the environment with things such as impact on the supply of clean drinking water and even food supplies. In the case of floods an tsunami's the drinking water becomes unsafe for people to drink from due to diseases in the water caused by the devastation of the hazard.