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Hurricane Joan
Hurricane Joan took a very unusual track for an Atlantic hurricane. It formed east of the Windward Islands in October 1988, and then hugged the northern coast of South America for several days. Joan is only the second storm known to have taken that track. Relatively weak for most of its life, it was a tropical storm until it reached hurricane strength while off the coast of Colombia, and made landfall at Bluefields, Nicaragua. Joan killed 148 people in Nicaragua alone, with the large death toll is in part blamed on residents' resistance to evacuation. Joan had strengthened rapidly in the day before landfall, and was a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale storm when it slammed into Central America.
Joan killed another 68 people in other affected nations. Damage in Nicaragua was estimated at 840 million US dollars.
After passing over Nicaragua and into the Pacific Ocean, Joan was reborn in the warm Pacific waters as Tropical Storm Miriam. Miriam managed to maintain tropical storm strength for almost two weeks, but eventually dissipated. Joan-Miriam is one of only seven storms on record as having made the transition from an Atlantic to a Pacific hurricane.
The name Joan was retired in 1989 and was replaced by Joyce in the 1994 season.
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CBS Miami
August 29, 2017
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – What started as a small plan mushroomed into a massive outpouring of help as strangers from Coral Springs and beyond are donating supplies to help flood victims in Texas. “It started out with two of us going, and just taking my truck and his truck and a boat and going out to help toÃâà...
Havana Times
July 25, 2017
Now when I go back, it all looks different: the houses are different, the area is very different, especially after Hurricane Joan in 1988,” Hooker remembers. Juliet moved to Managua for high school, but would return often to the Caribbean. At the end of the 80s, she moved to the United States to study politicalÃâà...
Devex
March 13, 2017
Being bold comes naturally to Callahan, who started with the faith-based nonprofit as an intern in Costa Rica and was immediately reassigned to Nicaragua in 1988 when Hurricane Joan slammed into the country's southeast coast. And so began his nearly 30-year journey in humanitarian aid — a vast pivotÃâà...
Rivard Report
December 7, 2016
“Hurricane Joan” has gained national recognition for defying local law enforcement and forging ahead in her mission to care for the “invisible people of San Antonio.” She shared touching stories of the human beings she's come in contact with through her culinary philanthropy, both her guests and herÃâà...
Daily Sabah
November 24, 2016
Bluefields, once an infamous pirate hangout, was smashed by Category 4 Hurricane Joan in 1988, a devastating storm that destroyed many of the town's 19th century wooden houses. Otto was moving west at 9 mph (14 kph), the NHC said. On the Corn Islands, which face Bluefields and are popular withÃâà...
Voice of America
November 24, 2016
Bluefields, once an infamous pirate haunt, was smashed by Hurricane Joan in 1988, a devastating Category 4 storm that destroyed many of the town's 19th century wooden houses. On the Corn Islands, which face Bluefields and are popular with tourists, 1,400 people were evacuated to shelters, with 1,000Ãâà...
WKBW-TV
November 23, 2016
The country's disaster prevention agency said classes would be cancelled in the area south of the town of Bluefields which was hit hard by Hurricane Joan in 1988. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the westward-moving storm had regained hurricane strength late Wednesday, with winds of 75 mphÃâà...
Q Costa Rica News
November 23, 2016
According to the CNE, some 1,040 people are now in 13 'active' shelters in the Caribbean and Southern Zone. In Nicaragua, the community is Bluefields is getting ready for a stong impact, a stark contrast to the unpreparedness of 28 years ago when it faced Hurricane Joan. In Panama, four people lost theirÃâà...
Stuff.co.nz
November 23, 2016
The country's disaster prevention agency said classes would be cancelled in the area south of the town of Bluefields which was hit hard by Hurricane Joan in 1988. Jose Donderis, Panama's civil defence director, said a landslide just west of Panama City early on Tuesday trapped nine people. Seven wereÃâà...
Q Costa Rica News
November 23, 2016
According to Juan Carlos Fallas, director of Costa Rican National Meteorological Institute (IMN), Hurricane Joan (Juana in Spanish), that grazed the coast in 1988, officially left 28 dead, 75 injured and 18 missing. Hurricane Otto is expected to make landfall in Costa Rica's Caribbean coast by WednesdayÃâà...
Forward
October 1, 2015
Aside from the 1988 Hurricane, technically named Hurricane Joan-Miriam, the Hurricanes Miriam all have the same story: minor storm, did not affect land. Hurricane Joan-Miriam, renamed after crossing from the Caribbean into the Pacific, killed at least 216 people. All of the deaths happened on Joan's side. Notable JewishÃâà...
The Tico Times
June 2, 2015
The area has often been hit by hurricanes – Hurricane Joan in 1988 almost destroyed the entire town – and the Nicaraguan civil war in the 1980s and '90s chased investors away. The city lies in the Southern Atlantic Autonomous Region, which since 1894 has counted with self-rule after being incorporatedÃâà...
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