Hurricane dean?

Question

Help please answer these questions about Hurricane Dean:
1. When did this occur or is it still occuring?
2. How and why did this happen?
3. What effect has this had on the surrounding environment and people? (Be specitfic about how the area has been affected and speciffically how the people in this area have been affected?)
4. What can we do about this? (Can we prevent this from happening in the furtue? Can we give warnings to people to save lives? What aid has been given to the areas?)

Answer 1

1. Hurricane Dean dissipated on August 23. It is too soon for the National Hurricane Center's easy-to-read synopsis that they do for each storm, but here are the advisories from start to finish: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/DEAN.shtml?

2, 3 and 4 require far too much info to answer here. I would suggest reading the FAQ's on the National Hurricane Center's site: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqHED.html

Can we prevent hurricanes? Not likely. Can we give warnings? Warnings have been given for decades, they are actually pretty good at tracking these things these days. There is zero reason for anyone in the US to die from a hurricane, we've known too much about them and have had warnings for many years. Some people in less wealthy countries with less access to info and transportation are still at risk though.

Hurricanes are nothing new, they've been around forever. The media coverage of them the last five years is pretty intense though.

Answer 2

Hurricane Dean is long gone, Felix, which is now a tropical storm is rampaging through Central America now.
The waters in the Caribbean have a temperature of 80 or more, that is the contributing factor on how Dean started.
Dean as well as Felix caused massive destruction and caused evacuation of thousands of tourists who were on vacation.
As for what we can do about this, that isn't for use to decide, Mother Nature does what she does, the warnings are good enough.