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Answer#1: I'm tired of telling you ple that no island in
the caribbean is going to be 100 %safe from
hurricanes.Some just going to get more
frequentlyhit than others beacuse of ther
strategic location but that dont mean that places
such as The ABC island are impossibel to get hit!
pfffff
Answer#2: Because Felix can't read maps.
Answer#3: Because hurricane Felix developed at a very low
point in the tropics near latitude 11.8 north and
longitude 58.6 west,this if it had develop say 10
degrees lower Trinidad would be right in it ,so
its no suprise that it has affected the ABC
islands,as it moved on a more WNW to NW track.Just
because we have a 120 year record dosen't mean
that in prehistroric events the islands them
selves haven't been hit and that they cannot be
hit,the Hurricane belt is there becasue of the
amount of count of actual stroms which affect
areas by frequency and intesnsity.Who's to
tell,look at Hurricane Lenny of Nov, 1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Lenny
that move from West to east,i could just imagine
the loook on the faces of the forcasters.The
Hurricane belt is only as good as its History in
Weather Observation.I have found an article also
to help put "it" in more understandable
terms.{The Hurricane belt however dose not mean
that islands that far south wont be affected at
all,it simply inplies that, that it could happen
tomarrow but on a {more} ware occassion.For
instance, on Sept. 7, 2004, just before hurricane
warnings being posted for the "ABC
islands" of the southern Caribbean Sea —
Aruba, Bonaire and Curacco — I answered a
question from a reader who said his travel agent
had told him these islands are "immune"
from hurricanes.My answer, in part was: "Some
places, and these include the ABC islands, have
lower odds of being hit by a hurricane than other
places, but they are not immune. Hurricane odds
are based on history, and Aruba has a history of
very few hurricanes — only six have passed
within 62 miles of the island since 1877. This is
close enough for at least some effects to be
felt." }
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