Hurricane Emily was the fifth named storm. She was the third hurricane of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. This storm formed July 10, 2005 and it dissipated July 21, 2005. Emily formed in Cape Verde. Emily finally came in contact with the land as a category 4 hurricane. It hit the Yucatan Peninsula, the island of Cozumel, Cayman Islands, Grenada, southern Texas and made final landfall on Tamaulipas of Mexico.

On July sixteenth Emily had become the strongest hurricane to form before the month of August. Early in the month Hurricane Dennis had made the waters of the Caribbean Sea warmer. That had helped Emily reach rapid strength before passing through the western Caribbean. On July 15^th the storm dropped to a category 2 hurricane and then later rebuilt its strength back to a category 4 hurricane. The cost of Emily’s damages is estimated to be $550 million dollars. Mudslides, extreme amounts of rainfall, and high winds were effects of hurricane Emily. Although there was a positive effect, Texas got rainfall that they needed badly to help relive a drought. Hurricane Emily caused the economy based on tourism for Mexico and Yucatan to decrease greatly. While people were staying there during hurricane Emily they had to be evacuated. Emily did take the lives of humans. Four people were put to death in Jamaica , and ten in all in the Caribbean. There were also two helicopter pilots were killed when there aircraft crashed while evacuating oil platforms all because of the destructive Hurricane Emily.

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