Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hurricane Gilbert uprooted not only trees but lives. It chewed across the length of Jamaica, leaving 500,000 people homeless, and virtually destroying the island's economy. It slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, shattering the glassy facades of tourist hotels and destroying the homes of 30,000 residents. By the time Gilbert touched the trembling but well-prepared Gulf coast, its epic force had been muted. Still, flooding and high tides swamped beaches and highways and forced more than 100,000 people in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi to flee in anticipation of its virulence...
...resort city of Cancun, authorities evacuated several thousand people, mostly vacationers. But the poor had no place to go. Winds leveled their often flimsy dwellings, and flood tides washed them away. Some 30,000 were left homeless in Yucatan state and about 10,000 more in Campeche on the peninsula's west coast...
Late in the week some parts of the Yucatan peninsula remained under 10 ft. of water, and seafront hotels were reporting extensive damage by high waves that rolled over seawalls and bashed through first-floor areas. Damage in Cancun was so extensive that one hotelier predicted it would require at least a month to clean up before reopening for business...
When anonymous troublemakers recently issued vague threats against the Japanese for being too friendly with South Korea, the irony could not have been more resonant: Japan and Korea have been the most serious of enemies for more than a millennium. The last of Japan's invasions on the peninsula ended up with Tokyo colonizing its neighbor from 1910 until 1945, forcing Koreans to adopt Japanese beliefs, Japanese words, even Japanese names. In fact, the man given the honor of carrying the torch into the Olympic stadium was, symbolically enough, Sohn Kee Chung, the Korean who won the 1936 marathon running...
...past few months. America was gripped by the worst heat wave and drought in decades. Hurricane Gilbert, considered the most violent storm nature can produce, has caused thousands in Texas to evacuate the Gulf coast and billions of dollars worth of damage in Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. In Bangladesh, some 40,000 homes have been destroyed by flooding and the stagnating flood waters may spread disease through most of the population. The forest fires in the Northwest, exacerbated by the weather, have burned an area approximately the size of Connecticut and still have not been brought under control...