Hurricane Noel 2007

Haiti was pounded with heavy rain from Tropical Storm Noel. Noel produced several days of torrential rainfall across Hispaniola and Cuba. The maximum rainfall report received from Haiti was 25.78 in from Camp Perrin, located near Cayes along the southwestern coast of Hispaniola. The exact number of deaths in Haiti has been somewhat difficult to determine, as counts have ranged from 57 to 103. Media reports from Reuters on 8 November stated that authorities have confirmed 57 fatalities. A report from the USAID Fact Sheet #3 on 8 November lists 103 casualties in Haiti with 20 persons missing. This report, however, appears to include deaths that may have occurred during “continuous rains over the past six weeks” before Noel’s passage. A report from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on 14 December states that the Haitian Direction of the Civil Protection (Direction de las Protection Civile- DPC) confirmed 73 deaths, while 17 people remained missing. For the purpose of establishing a final death toll in Haiti for Noel, this report uses the count of 73 fatalities, since that count is from a Haitian governmental agency and it appears to only include the deaths directly attributed to the tropical cyclone. In the Dominican Republic and Haiti, there were several reports of villages being swept away by flood waters. In Haiti, government reports note that nearly 18,000 homes were damaged and almost 4,000 homes were destroyed, while countless crops were ruined due to floods.

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