Saturday, 9 September 2017
Latest Breaking News Daily: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN
Latest Breaking News Daily: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN Hurricane Irma -- one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic -- hammered...
Latest Breaking News Daily: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN
Latest Breaking News Daily: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN Hurricane Irma -- one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic -- hammered...
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN
Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN
Hurricane Irma -- one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic -- hammered Puerto Rico on Wednesday night after smashing a string of small northern Caribbean islands where at least three people were killed.
CNN's Leyla Santiago, in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, said there were 900,000 customers without power as strong winds lashed the island. Officials told her there were several rescues because of flooding but there were no immediate reports of injuries in the US territory of about 3.4 million people.
Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN he thinks the island was being hit hard even though the eye of the storm stayed off shore.
"From the center of operations that we have over here in San Juan, there is pretty significant damage already done," he said, citing wind gusts of more than 100 mph.
The outer bands of the storm continued to whip heavy rain upon the island late Wednesday.
Tourist Steban Guajardo told CNN that water in the parking lot of a building he was at in the seaside neighborhood of Condado just kept rising.
eninsula.
-- Floridians should heed any evacuation order, Gov. Rick Scott said. "(A) storm surge could cover your house. We can rebuild homes -- we cannot rebuild your family," he said.
Hurricane Irma - storm tracker
CNN storm tracker - CNN.com
Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Hurricane Irma, Irma's, magnitude, never seen before, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, US Virgin Islands
Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Hurricane Irma, Irma's, magnitude, never seen before, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, US Virgin Islands
Irma's magnitude never seen before
Late Tuesday, Hurricane Irma was churning toward the northeastern Caribbean at 185 miles an hour. The forecast had it hitting around Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Anguilla by late Tuesday or early Wednesday, before impacting the British and US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico later that afternoon.
The storm's path is uncertain but Florida was also bracing for Irma's impact, possibly this weekend.
"The magnitude of this storm ... has never been seen before in Puerto Rico," Rosselló said, WAPA reported. "Although we hope that this hurricane will not greatly impact Puerto Rico, we are bracing for what could be a very catastrophic event."
Puerto Rico braces for Hurricane Irma
Puerto Rico braces for Hurricane Irma - CNN
San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN)People rushed to stores in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, emptying shelves of food and water as worry set in ahead of Hurricane Irma's expected impact Wednesday on the US territory.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard in preparation.
Those living on the commonwealth braced for the hurricane's potentially devastating winds and deluge, fearing if the Category 5 storm knocks out power from the bankrupt island's weakened electrical system, it may take weeks or months before power is restored.
Irma could be the strongest hurricane to ever hit the island, forecasters say. Some wonder whether Puerto Rico can rebuild.
"This is not a hurricane, this is a beast," a clerk in San Juan told CNN.
Another woman told CNN affiliate WAPA the power "is something absolutely necessary, especially due to Puerto Rico's weather. We need to have the A/C or a fan on all night."
Last month, the director of Puerto Rico's power utility, Ricardo Ramos Rodríguez, said several factors have made the island's electric system "vulnerable and fragile," WAPA reported.
One of those is the shortage of employees. Many workers recently retired or left their jobs for better prospects on the US mainland, Ramos Rodríguez said.
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