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Miami (AFP) Nov 5, 2010 Tropical storm Tomas regained hurricane strength Friday in the Caribbean, the US National Hurricane Center said, with heavy rains and winds lashing Haiti where thousands have been told to flee tent cities. The hurricane was packing maximum sustained winds of 80 miles (130 kilometers) per hour and was bearing down on impoverished Haiti, threatening further disaster in a country still reeling from a catastrophic January earthquake and battling a growing cholera outbreak. "The center of Tomas will pass near western Haiti this morning, near or over extreme eastern Cuba today, and near or over the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands later today or tonight," the NHC said in a bulletin.
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Haitians urged to evacuate tent cities as storm comesCorail-Cesselesse, Haiti (AFP) Nov 5, 2010 Tropical Storm Tomas lashed Haiti with heavy rains early Friday and threatened to strengthen into a hurricane as leaders of the quake-hit nation called for mass evacuations from tent cities. But many clung to their makeshift homes, even as the storm posed the risk of renewed catastrophe in the Caribbean country which is currently suffering from a deadly cholera epidemic. "My sisters and ... read more |
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