Port-au-Prince: Hurricane Elsa ran towards Haiti and Dominican Republic on Saturday, where it threatened to release floods and landslides before aiming for Cuba and Florida.
Storm Category 1 is located about 110 miles (175 kilometers) southeast of Isla Beata, Dominican Republic and is moving west-northwest at 31 mph (50 kph).
It has a maximum sustainable wind of 75 mph (120 kph), with a storm expected to be a tropical storm after hitting Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The long-term estimate track showed it towards Florida as a tropical storm on Tuesday morning, but some models would take it to the bay or on the Atlantic coast.
In Haiti, authorities use social media to remind people about storms and urge them to evacuate if they live near the water or side of the mountain.
“All countries are threatened by this storm, ” The Civil Protection Agency said in a statement.” Make every effort to escape before it’s too late.
“” Haiti is very vulnerable to floods and landslides due to widespread erosion and deforestation.
People still buy water and food when the storm approaches, with many alert about direct and long-term impacts in a country struggling with increasing gang violence and deep political riots.
“I protect me the best I can.
Civil protection will not do that for me,” said Darlene Jean-Pierre, 35, when he bought six water jugs along with vegetables and fruits.
” I have worries about the road, I have to worry about the gang battle.
Besides that, we have a storm.
I don’t know what kind of disaster will be caused by this.
“The storm warning was issued for Jamaica and from the capital of Haiti Port-au-Prince to Punta Palenque in the Dominican Republic.
A Hurricane Watch applies to Cuban Province of Camaguey, Granma, Guantanamo, Holguin, Las Tunas, and Santiago de Cuba.
Some of the provinces have been Reported the high number of Covid-19 infections, raising fears that the storm could force people together.
“Anticipation is the key word,” said Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, added that vaccination efforts would continue.
“Let’s keep life and property.” In the neighboring Dominican Republic, which shared HISPANIOLA Island with Haiti, authorities opened more than 2,400 protection spots when the forecast was warned on heavy rain starting Saturday before dawn to sweep past the past.
HISPANIOLA on Saturday afternoon and then aiming for the community in South Haiti.
The storm has tore the roof, destroying plants and discouraged trees and electrical lines in the East Caribbean on Friday, with damage reported in Barbados, St.
Lucia and in St.
Vincent And Grenadines, who also suffered a massive volcanic eruption that began in April.
At least 43 houses and three police stations were damaged, said St.
Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves.
“We hope that this number will increase as a report.
Enter, ” he said.
“We have some damage, but it can be much worse.
” In St.
Lucia, the wind damaged the middle school, hit the table, turned the chair and sent a flying paper after blowing the roof and siding.
Elsa is the first storm.
From the Atlantic season and The earliest storm mentioned by the fifth on the record.
It is expected to drop 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) of rain with a total maximum of 15 inches (38 centimeters) throughout the portion of Hispaniola and South Jamaica.