Beaches Disappear Due To Hurricane

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The beautiful turquoise blue of the Caribbean Sea now seems like a distant memory after the violent and terrifying passage of Hurricane Irma. Although it is now just a tropical storm, the storm has already claimed the lives of 27 people in the Caribbean and at least 4 more in Florida.

As a category 5 hurricane, Irma managed to cover an area of 70,000 square miles and reach winds of up to 185 miles per hour.

Outside of the great human tragedy that the storm has represented, residents of the Caribbean lament the damage caused to its world-famous beaches and that have caused a strange phenomenon that occasionally happens with this type of storm: that of the disappeared beaches.

Impressive videos and photos released on the networks showed places where there used to be beaches with crystalline waters and where now only the sea floor is covered with shells, algae and dead fish.

"I can't believe it … this is Long Island, Bahamas, and the ocean is not there !!" a user under the name @Kaydi_K said in a tweet. In your video you can't even see the sea on the far horizon.