Hurricane Mitch
Central America
October 1998 |
Hurricane Georges
Caribbean
September 1998 |
El Niņo/La Niņa
South America
1997-1999 |
- More than $8.5 billion in damage
- An estimated 9,000 people killed and 9,000
missing
- Electricity grids damaged
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- More than $3 billion in damage
- More than 500 people killed
- Power outages experienced on various islands
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- Persistant flooding and drought throughout
South America
- Unspecified number of deaths,
- Power rationing, as a result of the drought,
is costing Chile $300 million/month in lost business and output
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