Hurricanes have long been a fact of life in the Bahamas. With
extensive exposed coastlines jutting out of the Atlantic and
uniquely flat lands and shallow coastal waters, these islands had
seen many tempests before there was a Bahamas as we know it
today.
Hurricanes have shaped the islands' landscape and, in a sense,
their people as well. In the history of the Bahamas-often
considered a patriarchal society in which the hurricanes
traditionally bore the names not of women, but of the islands they
devastated-- the storms have impacted all aspects of everyday life.
A growing number of studies covering many aspects of hurricanes
have examined their social impacts. Even so, the historical ramifi
cati ons of the hurricanes of the Bahamas and of the wider realm of
the Caribbean have rarely been approached.
The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1899 and the Great Abaco
Hurricane of 1932 hold special places in the archives of Bahamian
history. These hurricanes were two of the worst natural disasters
the country had experienced at the time, and even to this day these
storms are considered among the top ten most destructive Bahamian
storms of all time. These two notable and very destructive Bahamian
hurricanes resulted in the deaths of over 334 Bahamians in 1899 and
18 in 1932. Learn why as author Wayne Neely explores the breadth
and depth of each disaster-not only how they impacted the society
at the time, but how they impacted the progression of history.
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