Hurricane Mitch 1998

[MsBatista85]

I miss John Hope, RIP.

[TheKenner89]

I remember this. I was in Honduras. It was some real stuff.

[DarthMaul3400]

When did he die?

[rjl1184]

@DarthMaul3400

2002. Age 83. He is dearly missed.

[cookie1749]

R.I.P John Hope :( :( :(

[ska8er4myholelife]

well none talks aboutguatemala witch when i was there it was floodin up to our second floor

[ziba34]

thumbs up if you hate Justin Bieber

[ziba34]

j aime les fesses

[celebrityfan1990]

Omg if that was Belize i would haven't been alive right now to comment i feel so sad that hurricane mitch kill estimate 25000 people

[bertashusband]

coma mucha mierda este culero viejonunca dijo que mal estaria el pais honduras. viejo basura.

[agearmaster1]

@bertashusband He said winds not rain dumbass

[hondakid182]

ATB - Too much rain over paradise

[jeepthing98]

When John Hope spoke about a hurricane event, you listened.

[MW2fan452]

WE MISS YOU JOHN HOPE!!

[KangaKucha]

I remember how the dead toll went from 300 to 1,000 to 11,000, it was shocking.

[patrickj1981]

I just remembered that this Hurricane was so deadly because it wasn't really moving. There weren't any steering currents before it had move to the north.

[computervidnerd]

Im doing a report on it lol!

[Flipsideou812]

I must say there is no record of "winds" in the 1935 Labor Day storm

[DillatheDude]

It was John Hope that named Camille in '69. It was the name of his daughter. He put in her name as one for a storm that year. Insane.

[jw870206]

He suggested that name with no real intention of it being given to a storm as infamous as the storm that ended up getting the name Camille.

[DillatheDude]

Oh, I wasn't accusing him of anything, I just thought it was an insane coincidence. No way he could have predicted how infamous Camille became.

[BillBrd1]

I think he did it as a graduation present for her.

[JakeTV248]

RIP John Hope.

[AlexFictionFriction]

My Dad was captain of HMS Sheffield and was head of all humanitarian ops then! woo!

[sweetboy81]

I was in Honduras back in 1998... this thing was devastating, a vivid proof that hurricanes do kill. Personally, I think Mitch was, is, and will be among the top five most powerful hurricanes ever in the Atlantic.

[8411506]

dont remind me please there are many memories that i dont want to relive. no one should have to go throught an event like that but there i was just a kid of nine years of age watching and listening to those winds and that rain, i was scared and even thou i was with my grandma and brother i thought that god had forsaken us, i saw as people get drag by the raging river of cholutequa days later through the news oh god those were hard times and now living in miami it doesnt make it any better

[transformersgod]

thats fucked up

"we don't know if its going to affect us"

i was 2 man they dont even care about us in honduras my house was the only to survive the winds

[BTVStation101]

isnt john hope dead

[Babajazz]

Yes, he's died in June 13, 2002.

[SlyMasterThief1996]

I was there but I was to young to remember my mom said it was horrible it destroid the hole Tegucigalpa Im from Honduras but now live in Sweden

[tittyj2020]

Whenever you so this guy on the weather channel, you knew a big hurricane was on the loose

[DragonFireOKN]

I like how they said it would turn North when it actually when South.

[Philliefan69]

I miss John Hope =(

[sweetboy81]

Me too... somehow the guy who works at the WC now in his place, can't hold a candle to him.

[KangaKucha]

jim cantory I think, me three I miss him too

[mzindpendent7]

yes.. it caused more destruction because it passed by central america and then decided to rotate backwards passing all over again!!!.. i was living in Guatemala weather was terrible.. but hurricane Stan was worse i think

[FF3Legend]

If the Great Hurricane hit again in this day and age, it would kill 50 to 100,000 people. Scary.

[HurricaneFreak30336]

you're right

[KangaKucha]

maybe, imo, it would kill less.

it all depends if they hav warning or not,if they hav none, yes it be as deadly as a cane that hits bangladesh, but if they hav wwarnigs, it be less, even less than mitch maybe, if one believes the great can killed more than mitch already.

[Copper20]

They did in 1999.

[XtremeWeirdo]

I'm assuming they retired this name.

[cbehr91]

Yes, it was replaced by Matthew for 2004. It was a Tropical Storm that made landfall in Louisiana.

[KangaKucha]

thats my name :)

I know, nothing to be pround of, but still

[KangaKucha]

John Hope (1919-2002) may he have rest forever.

[Copper20]

I was meaning in cost!

[FF3Legend]

In terms of damage, Katrina caused a lot more than Mitch. However, the death toll in Katrina was far less than in Mitch. 11-18,000 people killed is INSANE, and that's putting it NICELY.

[KangaKucha]

Agreed, Mitch killed more people than Katrina, Titanic, Pearl Harbor, and the Lisitania, put togerther times 2!

Another way of looking at it is the most deadly ship sinking (a german ship in WW2, can't rember the name off the top of my head), unoffically but likly killed 10,000 or just a little over that.

[itsalleternal]

Mitch's damage was about $7 billion I believe, which is incredible for a storm affecting poor countries.

[KangaKucha]

yeah, set hondorus, for exampole, back 50 years.

[BillBrd1]

Only one hurricane in the Atlantic was deadlier than Mitch. The Great Hurricane of 1780 killed over 22,000 people in the eastern Caribbean.

[KangaKucha]

i think mitch killed more imo

[Undertaker5712]

yeah it killed 18,000

[KangaKucha]

depends, I think if you also inculde the missing as dead, then mitch killed more than the great hurricane.

in the end, we will never know.

[Copper20]

The hurricane that was beat by katrina.

[twcrockstar51]

Nah, nothing comes close but the Labor Day Hurricane in '35.

[KangaKucha]

mitch killed more that labor day did.

[twcrockstar51]

Well, the Labor Day Hurricane had 200 mph winds while Mitch had 195 mph winds.

[KangaKucha]

185 for mitch, but wind speed does mean much.

[KangaKucha]

doesnt mean much, excuse me

water imo in a hurricane, does more death and damage than wind, where it be from flooding or strom surge.

[Undertaker5712]

180 mph

[Fyuzseion]

Mitch is the second-deadliest atlantic hurricane behind the great hurricane of 1780.

[KangaKucha]

true but the finall total in both will never be known, if you count the missing from mitch with the number of dead, it outbeats the great hurricane by a thosand.