The end of a hurricane is when it travels over cool land or cold water and its energy source (warm water) is gone and the hurricane weakens, quickly dying. Precipitation is when rain, hail, snow and other forms of water fall from the sky. When rainfall is too heavy it may cause flooding. There are three types of rainfall, relief rainfall, convectional rainfall and frontal rainfall. Convectional rainfall is when the sun heats up the sea and the warm air rises. The air gradually gets cooler as it rises. The air reaches its cooling point and clouds are formed. The clouds get heavier as this process repeats and when it gets too heavy rain starts to fall. Relief rainfall is when air is pushed by wind and is forced up the side of a mountain or hill. The air gets cooler as it travels up the mountain. Clouds are formed above the mountain or hill when the air reaches its cooling point. This process continues and eventually the clouds get too heavy and rain starts to fall. The third type of rainfall is Frontal rainfall, this is when warm air meets cold air. The warm air has a lighter density so it overrides the cooler air and moves upward. After the warm air rises above the cooler air (which sinks to the ground), it gradually cools while being lifted and form clouds and leads to precipitation.
Preparation before Hurricane Georges was different in the Caribbean than in the USA. In the Caribbean people prepared for Hurricane Georges by moving to higher ground so their homes wouldn't get destroyed from the hurricane or flood, school being cancelled so children would be safe at home with their families, hurricane shelters were open so that people would have a place to stay after the hurricane, people bought a food supply of canned food and about 8 bottled litres of water so they would have plenty to drink in case the water supply gets contaminated and becomes dangerous to drink. Street signs and heavy machinery are moved to avoid people getting hurt by them when the hurricane starts. People were educated about the effects of hurricanes. Where as in the USA people prepared for Hurricane Georges differently, they prepared for the hurricane by ordering about 200,000 people to evacuate low-lying grounds, the Red Cross organized shelters for up to 35,000 people so they would have somewhere to stay after the hurricane. Airlines cancelled flights. Big buildings like churches, were converted into shelters. People boarded up windows and doors to prevent flooding in their homes.
There are natural and human causes for hurricanes. Warm, moist air and warm water are the perfect conditions for hurricanes to form. Human activities such as deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions has already contributed to global warming, which leads to increased air and water temperatures worldwide, providing better conditions for more hurricanes to form so hurricanes become more severe and occur more frequently.
In conclusion I think that the main reason why more people died in the Caribbean than in the USA is because the Caribbean is made up of many islands and lies on the equator, where the conditions are ideal for hurricanes to form. The Caribbean has a lot of seas so there is more water for the sun to heat up and form hurricanes, the air becomes more moist so hurricanes are more severe and the sizes of hurricanes are much bigger than in the USA. The USA is not made up of islands so only costal states are affected by hurricanes. Temperatures in the USA are also lower than in the Caribbean.
