Para diciembre 15 de el ano 2011 mi esposa me ragala ademas de unos zapatos deportivos, uno de los mejores regalos que nadie me habia dado, La Membresia ala AAA, Asociacion de Acuaristas de Aguadilla. Es entonces que ellos estaban realizando una actividad navidena en la casa del senor Luis Acevedo, es alli donde por primera vez veo a Ricardo Valentin y aunque no somos amigos fue el, la primera persona que encontre en blogger con tantos temas interesantes, quizas el lector me podra llamar descarado por el copy paste. Es que desde que mi familia partio a Estados Unidos no tengo motivacion de ciertas cosas que hacia y me gustaban por tal razon recorde que nunca habia publicado alguna de la informacion de Ricardo. A la verdad que a Ricardo solo le e dado la mano y no e compartido ideas sobre peces personalmente, pero hoy me tomo el atrevimiento de promocionar sus trabajos y su pagina: http://ricardogupi.blogspot.com/2011/04/hurricane-hugo-few-photos-from.html asi en lo que yo decido que hacer ustedes podran ver una informacion de calidad y mucho mejor a la que yo ando posteando. Espero que les guste su pagina. Gracias.......
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2011
Hurricane Hugo, a few photos from the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
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| This tree was defoliated and stripped of most of its smaller branches. In this particular area most trees sustaine extensive damage but remained standing. |
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| In this area the trees were stripped clean of leaves and lianas and only the hard woody stems remained. Unfortunately it is not easy to get a perspective in this photo this makes trees with substantial sized look like twigs. To get an idea of the size look at the lower left corner of the photo were the remains of a palm frond can be seen. |
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| In this area the wind were so fierce even the bark was stripped of some trees. The top of this was ripped away by the wind. |
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| Seven days after the hurricane some roads were still impassable due to the massive tree fall. |
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| This part of the forest had faced the full brunt of the wild and the main color was that of the bare trunks and surviving braches of the trees. Leaves which usually covered everything are nowhere in sight. |
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| Forest damage over El Verde Station. |
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| Shattered tree trunk |
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| The entrance to the Caribbean National Forest, blocked by massive tree fall |
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| Tree trunk sheared off |
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| Making the best of a bad situation some college students from El Verde Station go out to do some research. |
These photos were taken seven days after Hurricane Hugo hit the northwest corner of the Island of Puerto Rico. I was able to take them because Hector Colon invited me and Sandra Moya to see the damage inflicted by the hurricane to the forest of the area around El Yunque mountain, then know as the Caribbean National Forest. We were shocked by the tremendous damage that the high wind inflicted to the forest. In some parts it looked like someone had bombed the forest. Bird mortality was high, as I recall half of all the Puerto Rican parrots in the forest perished as a result of the hurricane. Other species were similarly affected. We traveled around the El Verde area. We narrowly avoided being in the middle of a shoot out between cars that left several cars riddled with bullets by the side of the Espiritu Santo river bridge. We were unnerved because we heard the shooting from the spot we were inside the forest a few hundred feet away from the bridge. Although in some parts of the forest the damage was severe, in some sheltered parts the forest suffered much less damage. But huge parts of the forest were defoliated in a way that I had never thought possible. I took these photos and forgot about them for decades. Due to poor storage they degraded considerably and some became damaged. But even in their decay they give a powerful testimony of the awesome and frightful power of a tropical cyclone.
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