HOLY CRAP: Stan kills 59 people and toll expected to rise

#21 Postby **Andrew92** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:05 pm

See why I don't even take a Cat. 1 hurricane lightly?

May God be with the victims of Hurricane Stan in Mexico.

-Andrew92

#22 Postby **HURAKAN** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:11 pm

The question is, are all these deaths attributed to Stan have been really caused by the system?

Could many of these deaths have been triggered by usual diurnal downpours maybe enyhanced by Stan's moisture?

Could the wave passing right now over Central America be also a factor in this tragedy?

Is easy to see Stan as the only factor, but there could be another ones.

#23 Postby **TheEuropean** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:29 am

HURAKAN wrote:The question is, are all these deaths attributed to Stan have been really caused by the system?

Could many of these deaths have been triggered by usual diurnal downpours maybe enyhanced by Stan's moisture?

Could the wave passing right now over Central America be also a factor in this tragedy?

Is easy to see Stan as the only factor, but there could be another ones.

I agree as I posted in the Stan-thread. The inflow to Stan may be one factor, but I think the deaths can not only attributed to him because of the wave which may have caused heavy rains and more without Stan.

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #24 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:30 am

With Mitch it was all Mitch!!! This time its all Stan!

wxwatcher2 · #25 Postby **wxwatcher2** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:07 am

f5 wrote:a killer CAT 1

I doubt it has anything to do with the fact it was a just a Cat 1 storm,
more to do with the rain and mudslides in the mountains and construction of buildings.

I have mixed feelings about retiring names of storms.
I think I'd rather name the storms by letter designation. ABC etc with the year designation. 2005-H for instance.

Names make them sound way too personal. Then again, when you get blown away by one I suppose it's pretty personal.

HurricaneGirl · #26 Postby **HurricaneGirl** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:59 am

Oh my!

There must have been big time mudslides. When is this madness going to end? :eek:

Tri-State_1925 · #27 Postby **Tri-State_1925** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:16 am

Without Gordon being retired, I still can't believe the NHC considers deaths (especially in the Caribbean) a major retirement factor. I get the feeling that Cesar was retired more because a hurricane hitting that part of Central America is very uncommon.

I was in Costa Rica during Cesar...honestly I had been travelling for a couple of days and had no idea that a hurricane was causing all the heavy rain until I got home and saw what flash flooding had done to some towns.

You've got to understand the infrastructure in some parts of these countries are simply awful. People are literally living in cardboard shacks in some parts. And when they are located on the banks of rivers, you really get some problems...

#28 Postby **LAwxrgal** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:04 am

f5 wrote:a killer CAT 1

All tropical systems are killers. Heck when Jeanne was a TS she killed 3000+ people in Haiti.

bombarderoazul · #29 Postby **bombarderoazul** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:40 pm

49 People killed in El Salvador alone. The problem with El Salvador is that that country is heavily deforested, My grandfather used to tell me stories of when he was young, he used to go to the mountains and hunt deer and sometimes he would see jaguars and other wild animals. Now however you can only find deer in some very remote places and Jaguars can only be found in Guatemala or Honduras.

http://elsalvador.com/noticias/2005/10/ ... /nac15.asp

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