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  Hurricane Juan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hurricane Juan was the tenth named storm and the sixth hurricane of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season.
On September 26, Juan was classified as a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale and the storm's track was wavering slightly to the northeast.
On September 27, Juan's reached a peak windspeed of 105mph and the storm was reclassified as a stronger category 2 hurricane.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Juan   (1184 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan (1985) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hurricane Juan was a hurricane that formed in October 1985 and looped twice near the Louisiana coast, causing torrential flooding for several days.
Juan was the costliest hurricane of the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season, and at the time was among the costliest of all historical U.S. hurricanes.
Juan was the last of three hurricanes to effect Louisiana during the season, including Danny in August and Elena in early September.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Juan_(1985)   (997 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan
Juan roared up the eastern seaboard and struck our little province with relentless and merciless abandon.
In the days and weeks following the hurricane, our community underwent a metamorphosis that changed it from a collection of villages and scattering of houses to a close-knit, "Care for your Neighbour" attitude that will be as lasting (we hope) as the changes to the landscape.
Trees, the white wood of their splintered trunks exposed naked in the sun, were resting on homes, cars, garages; Juan had lifted roofs and deposited them in twisted heaps; homes had been torn from their foundations; boats disappeared and wharves were shattered.
lionsclub2000.tripod.com /juan.htm   (277 words)

  
 Canadian Hurricane Centre: Hurricane Juan 2003 Storm Summary
To date, Juan has claimed the lives of eight individuals: two when trees fell on their motor vehicle, two fishermen near Anticosti Island, three in a house fire speculated to have been started by candles used during the power outage, and one involved in relief work weeks after the storm.
Hurricane Juan will be recorded as the most damaging storm in modern history for Halifax, N.S. (as measured by the widespread tree blow-downs, power outages, and damaged homes).
Estimated diameter of the hurricane eye at landfall is 35 km (from Hubbards to the west end of Halifax).
www.ns.ec.gc.ca /weather/hurricane/juan/summary_e.html   (736 words)

  
 Juan the Hurricane Monster
The inescapable approach of hurricane Juan on the 28th of September, 2003, followed a straight line from Bermuda to the North Atlantic coastal city of Halifax, Canada.
As JUAN rampaged through our city during the night of 28/29 of September the sound of wholescale destruction and the silent flashing of exploding power lines surrounded us for 2 hours - a lasting imprint of the experience.
To my neighbors, the monster is a magical creation of my imagination, a disaster visualized and a unique remembrance of hurricane Juan and other ocean-born violence visitations such as cyclones and tsunamis and their floodings wherever they occur.
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 Hurricane Juan Hits Nova Scotia
Hurricane Juan made landfall just west of Halifax, Nova Scotia about 0245 GMT with wind estimated at 85 knots.
Hurricane Isabel, which is the same as Jezebel, just hit the US east coast 10 days before.
Since Juan means John, this continued the theme of the Jezebel counterattack on the Church, which symbolizes to the attack of the Prostitute of Babylon.
www.biblenews1.com /history3/20030929.htm   (589 words)

  
 Canadian Hurricane Centre: Hurricane Juan 2003 Special Reports
Hurricane Juan Storm Summary - A collection of quick facts and weather observational data that was prepared in the early days following Juan.
Hurricane Juan: EYE-witness Reports - Read about the eyewitness reports by Nova Scotians stating what they believed to be the eye of Hurricane Juan and if this was really possible.
Hurricane Juan's Effects at our home in Gold River, Nova Scotia - A personal account of the events as they unfolded before, during and after Juan Hurricane for a coastal homeowner.
www.ns.ec.gc.ca /weather/hurricane/juan/index.html   (631 words)

  
 MS Means...CBC Interview re: Hurricane Juan.
Juan made landfall on the coast of Nova Scotia at 12.10 AM on the morning of Monday Sept 29th, 2003.
Juan is the first hurricane since 1893 to bring its worst winds over the city of Halifax
As Juan approached Sunday, and we began to feel its effects, the numbers on the screen, and the significance of the radar and satellite data began to hit closer and closer to home.
www.msmeans.ca /juan.html   (1031 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan
Hurricane Juan, downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it reached Labrador Monday afternoon, left...
Hurricane Juan will be recorded as one of the most damaging storms in modern history for Halifax, N.S. Visit Environment Canada's special Hurricane Juan web site to learn about what happened on the days surrounding September 29, 2003.
Hurricane Juan grew stronger in the Atlantic Saturday, and resumed a course that's expected to put it over southeast...
hurricane.soundclicksecrets.net /2/hurricane-juan.html   (606 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan hits Halifax, Nova Scotia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hurricane Juan hit Halifax, Nova Scotia dead on in the night from Sunday, September 28, 2003 to Monday, September 29, 2003.
Hurricane Ginny which hit Nova Scotia in October 1963, was technically a stronger hurricane — a category 2 hurricane as oppose to Juan's weaker category 1.
He said the destruction caused by Juan a might be similar to that caused by Hurricane Hortense, which hit the Eastern Shore in Sept. 1966.
www.mcuniverse.com /index.php?id=1043&type=98   (538 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan
Hurricane Juan came ashore in the Halifax area at around 10 pm on Sunday, September 28, 2003.
After hanging around for a couple of hours and making a complete mess of the city and surrounding area, Juan rattled north through Dartmouth and Bedford on its way to trashing many other communities in Nova Scotia.
Click here for "Sounds of Juan", a glimpse of the hurricane by Maureen McInerney appearing in the December 2003 issue of Fog Horn.
www.cpshalifax.com /hurricane_juan.htm   (184 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan (1985) Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Juan's looping track made initial landfall on October 29 over south-central Louisiana.
The death toll due to Juan was 63.
Contrast Juan's after image with the after image for hurricane Danny in 1997 that followed a similar path.
www.csc.noaa.gov /crs/cohab/hurricane/juan/juan.htm   (237 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hurricane Juan will be recorded as one of the most damaging storms in modern history for Halifax, N.S. Visit Environment Canada's special Hurricane Juan web site to learn about what happened on...
Since Hurricane Juan, Department staff have been working to assess the damage to the woodlands in the...
Hurricane Juan will be recorded as one of the most damaging storms in modern history for Halifax.
www.survival-resources.com /Survival-Resources/hurricane-juan.html   (471 words)

  
 Remembering Hurricane Juan (Bow. James Bow.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Much of this is covered at the Canadian Hurricane Centre, an excellent website with lots of info remembering and describing the science of Hurricane Juan.
There is also a fascinating page on Hurricane Hazel, the legendary hurricane that somehow managed to strike Toronto in October 1954, killing over 80 people.
With respect to Hurricane Juan, the damage caused was in no way comparable to Katrina, but I don’t think Nova Scotia was really any worse prepared than New Orleans was.
www.bowjamesbow.ca /2005/09/03/remembering_hur.shtml   (1709 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan pictures HALIFAX and areas Nova Scotia
Hurricane Juan was recorded at McNabbs Island with 151 km/hour sustained for 2 minutes, so it may be re-classified as a Category 2 whereas it was classed as a Category 1, the level of damage caused was extreme.
The eye of the hurricane passed around Sambro or St. Margaret's Bay (near Peggy's cove), which is east of Halifax.
The most destructive part of hurricane, the east side of the eyewall, was a direct hit on Halifax, Dartmouth and urban areas just to the east.
www.trurons.com /juan/juan2.html   (498 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Hurricane Juan cleanup years from completion
Nine months after Hurricane Juan touched down in the Maritimes, residents and city workers are still cleaning up a potentially dangerous mess.
Juan's destructive winds levelled some 57,000 of the park's ancient and majestic chestnuts, beeches, conifers and walnuts.
Seventy per cent of Point Pleasant's trees were either uprooted or damaged by the Category 2 hurricane.
ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1088642208261_4?hub=Canada   (329 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It seems Juan thought it should be relocated.
The two pieces of dock here (one in the water, one up on the wharf) used to be part of a floating dock that extended out along the wharf.
The hurricane came in at high tide, combine that with the storm surge (not to mention huge waves) and this area was submerged for a while.
www.orthodoxy.cc /hurricanejuan.php   (603 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Forces of Nature - Flooding
Intense rainfall is part of the hurricane package, but not the only assault from the sea.
The leading edge of a hurricane can cause massive waves (called "storm surges"), which bring about sudden and violent flooding.
And, the eye of such a storm, long known for the calmest winds, can cause widespread coastal flooding (when the sea level rises and water overflows coastal banks).
www.cbc.ca /news/background/forcesofnature/flooding.html   (1356 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A category 2, Hurricane Juan (in the night from Sunday, September 28, 2003 to Monday, September 29, 2003) broke a number of provincial records.
The eye of the hurricane measured 35 to 40 kilometers in diameter.
Two people were killed when trees fell on their vehicles.
www.getthehomehabit.com /Juan2003.htm   (88 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan Photos | Acts of Volition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
They aren't pix of the hurricane, they are pix of the damage caused by same.
Hello, My brother is doing a report on the top 10 hurricanes in Louisiana and we are having some trouble getting good pictures and information on each individual hurricane.
i am doing a project on hurricane juan and i just wanted to say thanks for helping us all out.....these pictures are fun...yay fun...accept that they are very sad and such because of all the suffering everyone went through...oh, and i wish i was a newfey...yay for newfeys...farewell friend!!!
www.actsofvolition.com /archives/2003/september/hurricanejuan   (900 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan
Hurricane Juan, which passed over Halifax late Sunday, September 28th/early Monday September 29th, can stand alongside the Halifax Explosion as an event that changed the look of this city in one day.
As I drove and walked through the city in the days that followed, it was almost surreal.
This time, the city's trees, heavy with foliage not yet changing color for the season, fell victim to the hurricane's wind.
users.eastlink.ca /~halifaxhistory/hurricane_juan.htm   (123 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan - Sept 28/29, 2003
The Canadian Hurricane Centre has prepared pieces of information on Hurricane Juan that appear
Although I am an employee at the Centre who helped prepare the reports on that site, the information contained here at NovaWeather is primarily my own work.
Hurricanes Juan (2003) and Edna (1954): a comparison
www.novaweather.net /Hurricane_Juan.html   (319 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan, Sept 2003
Most don't think of Twisters or Earthquakes every coming close to us to be scared of it.
This past weekend we were hit by Hurricane Juan (down graded to a Tropical Storm) and the damage it left behind has been incredible.
Lots of damage illustrated from this picture with a tree pulled right from the parking lot.
gallery.newrecruit.org /photos/pei/hurricanejuan1   (74 words)

  
 eBay - hurricane juan, Music Memorabilia, Entertainment Memorabilia items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hard Rock Cafe HURRICANE SERIES San Juan pin
Hard Rock Cafe San Juan Hurricane Glass with Girl Pin
Stories of Hurricane Juan, Nova Scotia - Sept. 28, 2003
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 Hurricane Juan [Regions: Atlantic: Weather]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Contains several galleries of photographs from PEI of the damage done by the hurricane and the cleanup after it.
Collection of photographs of the damage caused by the hurricane as it hit PEI.
CBC Nova Scotia coverage of the hurricane and its aftermath.
ca.worldsearch.com /regions/atlantic/weather/hurricane_juan   (318 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan recovery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Finally...our favorite park reopens after getting hammered by Juan Sept '03.
see http://novascotia.cbc.ca/features/pointpleasant/ Looks like we'll be shouting 'Juan gone' with meaning.
The name juan has been retired by the National Hurricane Center because of the death & destruction in Nova Scotia last August
www.talkaboutboats.com /group/rec.boats/messages/646276.html   (95 words)

  
 Hurricane Juan Damage | newrecruit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The following site contains information on Hurricane Juan and apparently will be updated with a track that it took over NS.
The storm summary link indicates it came ashore a little south west of Halifax and tracked due north over the province before crossing the Northumberland Strait to PEI.
I made the video for Hurricane Juan, which (from what I have heard) is MUCH more popular than the Dido?
www.newrecruit.org /archives/2003/september/hurricanedamage   (1143 words)

  
 Hurricane JUAN
ZCZC MIATCDAT5 ALL TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM TROPICAL STORM JUAN DISCUSSION NUMBER 16 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 5 AM EDT MON SEP 29 2003 JUAN HAS REMAINED ON TRACK AND THE INITIAL MOTION ESTIMATE IS NOW 010/35 AS THE CYCLONE CONTINUES TO ACCELERATE AHEAD OF A NEGATIVELY TILTED MID/UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH.
JUAN SHOULD CONTINUE MOVING NORTH OR NORTH-NORTHEASTWARD UNTIL IT IS ABSORBED IN 24-36 HOURS BY AN EXTRATROPICAL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM APPROACHING FROM THE WEST.
WIND AND HEAVY RAIN WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NOVA SCOTIA AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND BY THE CANADIAN HURRICANE CENTER.
www.nhc.noaa.gov /archive/2003/dis/al152003.discus.016.shtml   (268 words)

  
 Friends of McNab's Island Society - Home
On September 29th, 2003, Hurricane Juan hit Nova Scotia and caused extensive damage to McNabs Island.
McNabs Island opened again to the public on May 21st.
Due to the extreme forest fire hazard caused by the dead and dying trees blown down by Hurricane Juan, campfires are currently prohibited on the island.
www.mcnabsisland.ca /HurricaneJuan.htm   (115 words)

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