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Since [[1495]], the [[island]]s of the [[Caribbean]] have experienced ample [[hurricane]] activity; either being directly hit or significantly brushed.

==List of Caribbean hurricanes==
The following is a '''history of hurricane activity in the Caribbean''':

*[[1495]] - [[Christopher Columbus]] encounters a hurricane near [[Hispaniola]]. He reported that “Nothing but the service of [[God]] or the [[Monarchy]]” would he permit himself exposure to such a storm again.
(contracted; show full)embarrassingly-low prices.  This hurricane triggered a re-gentrification of the native populations to plantations in Hawaii and sweatshops in New York.  Disease and poverty became rampant.  Puerto Ricans, who once owned 93% of all arable land, now lost it to the absentee-owned sugar corporations who would hire the same destitute Puerto Ricans to work for very low wages on lands that once belonged to them.  This was a major shifting political event in the U.S. takeover of the once-Spanish colonial island.


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*[[August 30]]-[[September 10]], [[1900]] - Tropical storm of Cape Verde origin skirted the south coast of Puerto Rico in an E to W direction.  It would go on to cross Hispaniola and Cuba as a tropical storm, but when it emerged in the Gulf of Mexico just SW of the Florida Keys, the intensification would begin.  This powerful hurricane would go on to completely devastate the U.S. city of Galveston, Texas.  Upon landfall (September 8-9) 8,000-10,000 persons were drowned when the city became inundated by t(contracted; show full)==See also==
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*[[List of notable tropical cyclones]]
*[[List of Atlantic hurricane seasons]]

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[[Category:Lists of tropical cyclones|Caribbean]]