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SCIENCE Friday 2 december 2022
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Atlantic hurricane season ends with 14 named torms HEALTH

DOCTOR ON DUTY
By DAVID FISCHER
Associated Press Oranjestad
MIAMI (AP) — An Atlantic Hospital 7:00 pm / 10:00pm
hurricane season that had Tel. 527 4000
14 named storms officially San Nicolas
ended on Wednesday,
leaving residents in the Flor- Imsan 24 hours
Tel.524 8833
ida Keys to celebrate even Women in Difficulties
as others around Florida PHARMACY ON DUTY
and Puerto Rico continue
to grapple with the dam- Oranjestad:
age caused by Hurricanes Eagle Tel. 587 9011
San Nicolas:
Ian, Nicole and Fiona. centro medico Tel. 584 5794
The 2022 season had an Women in Difficulties
unusually calm first half OTHER
but made up for that with Dental Clinic 587 9850
the three destructive hur- Blood Bank Aruba 587 0002
ricanes in the second half, Urgent Care 586 0448
ending with an average Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
+297 588 0539
number of named storms. Women in Difficulties
The season runs from June EMERGENCY
1 until Nov. 30.
This year’s period saw eight Police 100
hurricanes with winds of at Oranjestad 527 3140
least 74 mph (119 kmh), Members of Florida Task Force 2 urban search and rescue gain access to a home through a Noord 527 3200
Sta. Cruz
527 2900
and two of them intensi- broken upper window to confirm the home is clear of people and human remains, a week after San Nicolas 584 5000
fied to major hurricanes the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., on Oct. 5, 2022. Associated Press Police Tipline 11141
with winds reaching at Ambulancia 911
least 111 mph (179 kmh), pacts. Members of Key the storm headed north homes collapsing into the Fire Dept. 115
according to the National West’s ceremonial Conch and struck South Caro- ocean. Hurricane Fiona Red Cross 582 2219
Oceanic and Atmospheric Republic administration lina as a Category 1 storm. was the season’s first major TAXI SERVICES
Administration. An aver- then doused the hurri- With 150-mph (241-kmh) hurricane, eventually be- Taxi Tas 587 5900
age hurricane season has cane flags with rum and maximum sustained winds, coming a Category 4 storm Prof. Taxi 588 0035
14 named storms, seven set them ablaze. The event Hurricane Ian tied for the with winds of 130 mph (215 Taxi D.T.S. 587 2300
hurricanes and three ma- was staged beside the U.S. fifth-strongest hurricane kmh) as it rumbled toward Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
jor hurricanes, forecast- Coast Guard Cutter Ing- ever to make landfall in Canada. The center of the A1 Taxi Serv. 280 2828
ers said. This season was ham, a maritime museum the U.S., officials said. Hur- storm missed the mainland Women in Difficulties
notable for a record-tying docked at Key West’s Tru- ricane Nicole’s eye hit cen- U.S., but it hit Puerto Rico as TRAVEL INFO
inactive August. This year man Waterfront. In late tral Florida’s Treasure Coast a Category 1 in mid-Sep- Aruba Airport 524 2424
was the first time since 1941 September, Hurricane Ian area as a Category 1 storm tember, leaving the entire American Airlines 582 2700
that the Atlantic Ocean made landfall as a Cat- in early November, but the island without power and Avianca 588 0059
has gone from July 3 to egory 4 storm in southwest greatest damage seemed at least 25 people dead.q Jet Blue 588 2244
the end of August with no Florida before leaving to occur more than 100 Surinam 582 7896
named storm, Colorado nearly 150 deaths and a miles (160 kilometers) to Women in Difficulties
State University hurricane swath of destruction as it the north around Daytona AID FOUNDATIONS
researcher Phil Klotzbach moved northeast across Beach, where beach ero-
said. Since 1950, only 1997 the state. After making its sion started by Hurricane FAVI- Visually Impaired
Tel. 582 5051
and 1961 had no named way back to the Atlantic, Ian worsened and led to
storms in August. Alcoholics Anonymous
Tel. 736 2952
Several hundred Florida Narcotics Anonymous
Keys residents gathered Tel. 583 8989
Wednesday to mark the Fundacion Contra Violencia
season’s close by burning Relacional Tel. 583 5400
hurricane warning flags. Centre for Diabetes
The event featured a blast Tel. 524 8888
blown on a conch shell, a Child Abuse Prevention
Tel. 582 4433
symbol of the Keys, and
speakers recalled those Quota Club Tel. 525 2672
Women in Difficulties
affected by the 2022 hur- General Info
ricanes and expressed
gratitude that the Keys Phone Directory Tel. 118
were spared major im-

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