Natural Hazards
Hurricanes and volcanic activity.
The island was severely affected by Hurricane Allen in 1980, causing tourism to drop, but Saint Lucia has generally had fewer hurricanes than most other caribbean islands.
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“What is most interesting and valuable in it, however, is not the materials for the history of Pontiac, or Braddock, or the Northwest, which it furnishes; not the annals of the country, but the natural facts, or perennials, which are ever without date. When out of history the truth shall be extracted, it will have shed its dates like withered leaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)