TY - GEN AU - Bello, Omar AU - Hendrickson, Michael AU - Marcano, Blaine AU - Pantin, Machel AU - Mery, Gustavo AU - Espiga, Carlos AU - Espiga, Franklin AU - Gonzalez, Mauricio AU - Flores, Adrián AU - Ibarra, Francisco AU - Marconi, Salvador AU - Williams, Robert AU - Attademo-Hirt, Florencia AU - Nelson, Michael ED - Zane, Zachary TI - Assessment of the Effects and Impacts caused by Hurricane Irma, The Bahamas 2017 PY - 2020 Y1 - 2020/08/25 DO - 10.18235/0002617 AB - Hurricane Irma was the largest hurricane observed in the Atlantic open ocean, maintaining a Category 5 for three days, and made landfall over Turks and Caicos, and later Barbuda, before reaching the southern islands of The Bahamas. It is estimated that 3515 people were evacuated with 133 public shelter used from September 6 to September 10. Hurricane Irma caused moderate damage throughout the country. Most of the damage sustained resulted from excess rainfall, storm surge and flooding. It is estimated that the total damage was $32.2 million of which 40.5 per cent was public and 59.5 was private. UR - https://doi.org/10.18235/0002617 ER -