three people. One station in the Dominican Republic recorded winds of , downing power lines and leaving hundreds of households without power. Some rivers flooded and an expressway flooded. November 13, 1994 - Hurricane Gordon drops heavy rainfall on Haiti, killing more than 1,000 people. September 10, 1996 – Hurricane Hortense moves through the Mona Passage, dropping heavy rainfall and causing hurricane-force winds, peaking at 92 miles per hour in Punta Cana. Heavy rainfall that peaked at 19.25 (489 mm) inches in San Rafael del Yuma combined with storm surge closed many roadways. Wind and rain from Hortenese damaged more than 80 percent of crops in Samana alone. November 20, 1996 - Hurricane Marco (1996) passes close to Hispaniola, dropping heavy rainfall. In the Dominican Republic, three people drowned north of Santo Domingo and 200 families evacuated from their homes. September 22, 1998 – Hurricane Georges makes landfall in the Dominican Republic with 120 (190 km/h) mph winds, causing more than $1.2 billion and killing 589 people. In Santo Domingo, strong winds destroyed 112 homes, and damaged one of the Dominican Republic's only major airports. Throughout the entire country 55 percent of the agricultural system had been destroyed while 90 percent of the plantation crop had been destroyed. Overall damage to the agriculture was $434 million (1998 USD) in the Dominican Republic. 2000s August 23, 2000 – Hurricane Debby moves north of Hispaniola, forcing dozens of families to evacuate. High waves, heavy rainfall, and storm surge did moderate damage to buildings. In the town of Salcedo approximately 23 square miles (60 km) of banana crops were lost to the storm. October 6, 2001 - Hurricane Iris moves to the south of Hispaniola as a Category 1 hurricane, dropping heavy rainfall and killing three people. Rainfall from the system was up to , resulting in rivers overflowing their banks and forcing 35 families to evacuate their homes. Rainfall from Iris also triggered landslides, with one near Santo Domingo that decimated a house and killed a family of three, while another landslide injured two people. September 24, 2002 – Hurricane Lili passes to the southwest of the Tiburon Peninsula as a dissipating tropical storm, dropping heavy rainfall. Near the town of Camp-Perrin there was almost of rain, making it the 4th wettest tropical cyclone in Haiti, overflowing Ravine du Sud River, ending up submerging buildings. Overall the storm killed 4 people. December