Hurricane FloydCase Study

September 1999

Effects

• Hit the coast of Florida and then moved North towards Georgia and South Carolina.

• Torrential rain and 155mph winds battered the area, bringing down power and phone lines and snapping trees.

• It whipped up 20-foot waves along the coast.

Effects

• Anxious holidaymakers and local residents fleeing the storm jammed roads.

• Over a million people were evacuated from Key Biscayne, Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale.

• Floyd was more than 600 miles in diameter and was the biggest storm to hit Florida since Hurricane Andrew in 1992 (that left 26 dead, 160,000 homeless and caused $25billion of damage).

• Floyd was estimated to be three times as strong as Andrew.