1. State-owned Petroleos Mexicanos closed 14 production wells in the northern part of Veracruz state and evacuated workers from some oil platforms in the Gulf.

2. The Laguna Verde nuclear power plant was shuttered and workers were evacuated.

3. TROPICAL STORM LISA: SEPT 25, 2010

4. TROPICAL STORM MATTHEW: SEPT 24, 2010

5. TROPICAL STORM MATTHEW WEAKENS: SEPT 26, 2010

6. After landfall in Belize, Matthew’s rains and winds hit Honduras and Nicaragua on Friday (24 th ), forcing hundreds of residents and tourists to evacuate and threatening coffee and sugar crops.

7. Before Mathew struck, more than 260 people had already died in Guatemala from flash floods and mudslides.

8. Hurricanes are unfriendly to the small economies of countries like Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras, which depend heavily on agricultural exports like coffee and sugar.

9. As expected, Matthew shifted north toward Guatemala and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and lost force before reaching the Gulf of Mexico, where most of Mexico's oil wells are located.

10. FAST MOVING NICOLE FORMED NEAR CUBA: SEPT 29

11. Nicole, a rainmaker, soaked Cuba and Jamaica on Wednesday (29 th ), then its remnants became part of a low-pressure system that soaked the USA from Florida to Maine.

12. OTTO’S PATH AFTER BECOMING A HURRICANE IN 2 DAYS: OCT 8

13. TROPICAL STORM PAULA FORMS NEAR HONDURAS: OCT 11

14. The Honduran National Emergencies Commission issued a tropical-storm warning for the coastal provinces of Gracias a Dios, Islas de la Bahia, Colon, Atlantida and Yoro..

15. Mexico issued a hurricane warning for the country's coast from Punta Gruesa north to the resort city of Cancun and the island of Cozumel, AND Belize, which shares the Yucatan peninsula with Mexico, issued a tropical-storm watch for its coast..

16. HURRICANE PAULA SOAKS CANCUN: OCT 13

17. PAULA HEADED TOWARDS CUBA AS CAT 2 HURRICANE: OCT 13

18. HURRICANE PAULA SOAKS CUBA’S TOBACCO FIELDS: OCT 16

19. Cuba's current weak economy is still recovering from 2008’s devastating trio of Hurricanes Gustav, Ike and Paloma that caused $10 billion in damage to the tobacco fields of Pinar del Rio and to other parts of the island..

20. On October 17 th, Western Cuba was at high risk, because whenever a big storm like Paula is moving slowly, it's going to spend a longer time dumping heavy rain, and it could still strengthen again..

21. DEPRESSION 19 BECOMES TROPICAL STORM RICHARD: OCT 21

22. RICHARD BRUSHES HONDURAS ENROUTE TO MEXICO: OCT 23

23. Richard became a CAT 1 hurricane on Sunday, Oct 24 th..

24. AS A TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE; SHARY WAS NO PROBLEM: OCT 27

25. TOMAS BECAME A HURRICANE IN ONE DAY: OCTOBER 30

26. Recognizing the danger Tomas represented to locations in the eastern Caribbean, Haiti, and possibly the Gulf of Mexico, all nations were advised to pay close attention to Tomas’ path during the first week of November..

27. In the eastern Caribbean, Tomas left at least 14 dead, many homeless, and island nations suffering from millions of dollars in damages to banana crops, housing, and infrastructure from wind, flooding, and landslides

28. TOMAS: IMPACTS BARBADOS

29. Tomas, as a CAT 2 storm, was the “the worst in Saint. Lucian history,” causing the loss of its entire banana crop, which along with tourism, is extremely important to Saint Lucia’s economy..

30. TOMAS: IMPACTS SAINT LUCIA

31. Hurricane Tomas, which intensified overnight on Thursday (Nov. 4) to CAT 1, is bearing down on Haiti, a country with a triple disaster: 1) the January 12, 2010 earthquake, 2) cholera affecting at least 6,700 people, and 3) more than 1 million people still living in tents..

32. "Haiti and the Dominican Republic occupy the same island, but Haiti has a much bigger landslide problem, because the Dominican Republic still has its forests and Haiti does not..

33. A TREELESS, LANDSLIDE-PRONE HAITI FACING TOMAS, A RAINMAKER

34. HAITIANS: AWAITING EVACUATION ON NOV 4 th

35. HAITIAN’S POOREST OF THE POOR WITH NO PLACE TO GO

36. Tomas, a CAT I storm and rainmaker, came ashore at Haiti's far southwestern edge on Nov. 5 th, slamming the coastline with 135 kph (85-mph) winds and deluging the area with heavy rain..

37. RELATIVE GOOD NEWS: Perhaps, only six deaths along with an early indication that, except for localized flooding, most of the tent cities were spared..

38. Leogane, which had already lost 90 percent of its buildings and thousands of people in the Jan. 12 th quake, is one of several Haitian towns that were flooded..

39. LEONGANE: COPING WITH OLD AND NEW DISASTERS, NOV 5

40. Old and new disasters were mingled in Leogane, where milky-brown floodwaters filled quake-cracked streets and patched-up homes and cut off a camp that had been home to hundreds of refugees..

41. FLOODING IN CITI SOLELI, HAITI: NOV 5

42. A RESCUE IN LEONGANE, ONE OF HAITI’S FLOODED TOWNS

43. NOV 6: TOMAS HEADS INTO OPEN ATLANTIC TO DIE

44. NOV 13: REGION IN SO. CARIBBEAN DID NOT BECOME TS VIRGINIE

45. NOV 15: REGION IN SO. CARIBBEAN DID NOT BECOME TS VIRGINIE

46. NOEVEMBER 30 th If tropical storm Virginie had formed as the 20 th storm of 2010, 2010, currently tied with 1995 as the 2 nd busiest hurricane season, would have taken over 2 nd place.