2003 damage reports
These reports are not to be intended for up to the minute information, rather for future reference

T-Strom Bill 60 mph winds,4 deaths 30 million in damage
Hits SE Louisiana on June 30th from the South.
Lousiana
HOUMAA 5-foot storm surge topples levees in Montegut and Pointe-aux-Chenes, flooded hundreds of homes and left 1,000 people without power.
Cocodriewinds were clocked at 64 mph .
Reserve One person was seriously hurt and three suffered minor injuries when a tornado tore up a mobile home 38 miles from New Orleans. Twenty other homes and a private school gym also were damaged, said Van Gilmore, assistant director of civil defense in St. John the Baptist Parish.
Lake Toxaway N.C9.15 inches of rain
Table rockreservoir, S.C 6.15 inches.



Hurricane Claudette
Goliad county
HWY 77 CLOSED NORTH OF REFUGIO AND SOUTH OF HWY 239. 5-6 18 WHEELERS BLOWN OVER ON THEIR SIDES ACROSS LANES.
AransasHOLIDAY BEACH SPEEDY STOP LOST ROOF.
Calhoun SUSTAINED WINDS OF 80 MPH WITH GUST TO 96 MPH AT DOW CHEMICAL PLANT, ROOF BLOWN OFF PORTION OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. OLD HISTORIC BUILDING IN TOWN LEANING AND POSSIBLY DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR ACCORDING TO SHERIFF. ENTIRE TREES OBSERVED BLOWING DOWN THE STREET. WIDE SPREAD DAMAGE ACROSS THE COUNTY.
Port Lavaca (gusts to 111mph)AT LEAST A DOZEN TELEPHONE POLES BLOWN DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY 35 SOUTHWEST OF PORT LAVACA.TORNADO ON THE GROUND FOR A MINUTE CAUSED DAMAGE TO HOMES IN PORT LAVACA. REPORTED BY CALHOUN COUNTY EOC.
Port Alto nearly every building reports of damage.
Refugio countyTIVOLI BUILDINGS DAMAGED AND POWER POLES DOWN. 5.63 inches of rain quick west moving storm.
Jourdanton 13 yr old boy crushed by fallen tree.
Port oconnor landfall 28.91 979mb San AntonioThirteen-year-old Clayton Dojahn died when a massive mesquite tree succumbed to high winds and fell on him in Jourdanton.
Victoria33-year-old Sharon Bauer, who died after a huge limb from a live oak tree snapped and fell on her head as she went to inspect the storm damage.
MEXICO (Hurricane Erika aug 16th)2 die in Montemorelos,truck swept away. Minimal damage in South Texas.

Hurricane Fabian Bermuda Sept 5th
25,000 or 32,000 without power after storm, 4 missing swept out to sea in cars and a total of 8 fatalities.. Landmark buildings such as the House of Assembly, Bridge House and Buckingham in St. George’s, City Hall, Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, Sonesta Beach Hotel, the Fairmont Southampton Hotel, Temperance Hall in Hamilton Parish, and Somerset Cricket Club were all damaged. Over 300 million in damage (US). John Smith's Bay and Spittal Pond South Shore Road completely impassable after the storm .
west endThe Fairmont Southampton, suites were knocked out on the fifth floor and the roof damaged. Beachside restaurants at Elbow Beach and Sonesta Beach were also wiped away.


Hurricane Isabel Sept 18th 2003
In all, about 6 million people from North Carolina to New York lost power from Isabel 23 killed as of sept 20th
MarylandBaltimore streets flooded with up to 7 feet of water from the storm-swollen Chesapeake Bay.
Washington D.CShut down for 2 days and cut power to 5.5. million homes and businesses.
Virginianine deaths — more than any other state. Six motorists died here, as did two people hit by trees and a man who died when his canoe capsized.
North Carolina Kitty Hawkat least three fishing piers crumbled into the surf and about 25 oceanfront homes were destroyed or ripped from their foundations. On the only highway through the 120-mile barrier islands, long stretches were simply erased, or left pocked with asphalt craters. Near the famed Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Isabel's storm surge tore a new inlet that stranded 300 residents and floated at least one house into the Pamlico Sound. Authorities were still working to account for all of the 4,000 coastal residents who refused to evacuate.
Harlowe30 homes destroyed in the inland community. Morehead city1 killed here, 400 or 500 houses with flood damage.Mill Creek also suffered extensive road flooding. East part of Carteret county hit hard & west had minimal damage.The city’s old number two fire station near Camp Glenn had the flat portion of its roof lifted up and suffered some damage Cape HatterasHighway 12 is entirely flooded in spots in Dare County, covered with sand, debris and downed power lines.Hatteras Island was severely damaged with homes and businesses destroyed by the sea.
Elizabeth city N.C2003 Sept 18th Hurricane Isabel passes approx 50 miles to the west while moving NNW. Isabel approx 85mph at the passage downed many trees & virtually all of Elizabeth city was without power.Scores of downed trees, snapped power lines and at least one death left a testament to the fury of the storm. And some residents might not see power restored for two weeks, officials said. A 25-year-old woman, Angelique Jones, was killed on Carl Drive, a street in the Cape Colony subdivision, when a tree fell on her Honda Passport at about 1:30 p.m. 5 injured from flying glass at evacuation shelter.


Hurricane Juan, Nova scotia Sept 28th-29th cat 2 est 100mph CHC & NHC HalifaxA tree was uprooted and crushed an ambulance killing a paramedic near the Camp Hill Hospital .Hundred of Maritimers in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island lost power. There were two direct deaths associated with Juan due to falling trees. In addition, three indirect deaths occurred in a house fire speculated to have been started by candles during power outages. Halifax Harbor recorded an all time record water level of 4.9 feet above the normal tide levels, which resulted in extensive flooding of the Halifax and Dartmouth waterfront properties. The building where the CHC is located was also damaged.
DartmouthOccupants of a fifth-floor Dartmouth apartment were trapped when a portion of their ceiling collapsed shortly before 1 a.m. The winds caused considerable damage to ferry terminals on both sides of the harbour. In the main Dartmouth terminal, the water was up to escalators.

T-Storm Larry Oct 5th Well east of Vera Cruz, Mexico Tabasco stateFloods cover more than 7,400 acres of Banana plantations.

TS Odette
Barahona peninsula 8 killed by flood waters.
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