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Storm Kills 48 in Haiti, Dominican Republic

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« on: October 31, 2007, 09:02:41 am »


AP - Tue Oct 30, 9:49 PM ET In this photo released by
 United Mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, a resident, carrying
a child on his shoulders, struggles to cross a flooded
street due to heavy rains caused by tropical storm Noel,
in la Plaine, Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007.

(AP Photo/Logan Abassi, MINUSTAH)









                                      Storm kills 48 in Haiti, Dominican Republic





By RAMON ALMANZAR,
Associated Press Writer

 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Floodwaters and mudslides spawned by Tropical Storm Noel killed at least 48 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, officials said Wednesday, raising the death toll as the storm's center spun slowly across Cuba and toward Florida.
 
Thousands on the island of Hispaniola shared by the two countries fled their homes as the tropical system's outer bands dumped heavy rains.

Forecasters projected the storm would emerge over water Wednesday near central Cuba and head northeast toward the Bahamas. Residents of southeastern Florida were advised to monitor the progress of Noel, which could pass close to the state over the next few days.

At 8 a.m. EDT, Noel's top sustained wind was near 40 mph, down from 60 mph a day earlier, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Its center was 65 miles north-northwest of Camaguey, Cuba, about 195 miles south-southwest of Nassau, Bahamas, and about 270 miles south-southeast of Miami. Some strengthening over the ocean could occur as it pulls away from Cuba.

Noel's outer bands pounded Hispaniola on Tuesday evening even as the storm chugged away from the island, which is made vulnerable to flash floods by its many denuded hillsides. Tropical storm-strength winds extended up to 175 miles from the storm's center. Above-normal tides and heavy rain were expected in its path into the Atlantic.

In the Dominican Republic, almost 12,000 people were driven from their homes and nearly 3,000 homes were destroyed, while collapsed bridges and swollen rivers have isolated 36 towns, said Dominican emergency services spokesman Luis Luna Paulino.

"The rains continue to fall and we fear for several families," said Sergio Vargas, a merengue star and Dominican congressman who represents Villa Altagracia, a small town north of the capital, Santo Domingo.

Late Tuesday, Luna raised the Dominican death toll to at least 30 from 16, but did not release specifics of the deaths. Earlier in the day he acknowledged miscalculating a previous toll.

In neighboring Haiti, the death toll rose from six to at least 18, including two women washed away by a river in the town of Gantier, said Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of Haiti's civil protection agency. Red Cross volunteers said a 3-year-old boy drowned as his family tried to rescue him from a raging river in the vicinity of Duvivier.

In Port-au-Prince, thousands slogged through waist-high water that turned streets into brown rivers, carrying their last remaining possessions as they fled drenched shacks and makeshift homes. Refugees were brought by the truckload to the dense seaside slum of Cite Soleil, where they were packed into two schools and given food by volunteers.

About 2,000 people were evacuated from homes in the southern coastal city of Jacmel, where at least 150 residents were stranded on rooftops.

In Cuba, the government said about 1,000 homes had suffered damage, 2,000 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas across the island and schools were closed for several thousand students.

Bahamian authorities closed most government offices and lines formed at grocery stores and gas stations in Nassau, the capital. Rain from the outer bands of the storm forced tourists to cover themselves in trash bags or huddle for shelter in doorways.

"We're expecting a lot of rain and for conditions here to deteriorate starting tonight," Jeffrey Simmons, deputy director of the Department of Meteorology in the Bahamas, said Tuesday.

Warnings were in effect for rough surf for much of South Florida, including the Miami area, as waves were already pounding the region's beaches. Residents of a waterfront condominium in South Palm Beach were urged to evacuate after pounding surf destroyed a retaining wall that had been damaged earlier this month in another storm.

A tropical storm watch may be issued for southeast portions of the U.S. state if Noel shifts west or its wind field expands. A watch means tropical storm conditions are possible within 36 hours. But forecasters said the rains would likely miss drought-stricken Georgia, Alabama and other southeastern states.
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                                    Noel becomes hurricane, moves away from Bahamas





By Michael Christie
Thu Nov 1, 9:07 PM ET
 
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Noel, whose rains have killed at least 108 people in the Caribbean, strengthened into a hurricane in the Atlantic on Thursday as it moved away from the Bahamas toward Bermuda, U.S. forecasters said.
 
The center of Noel was about 810 miles west-southwest of Bermuda by 8 p.m. EDT and its maximum sustained winds had reached near 75 miles per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Noel is now a Category 1 hurricane, the lowest level on the Saffir/Simpson scale.

A hurricane watch was in effect for the northwestern Bahamas as Noel moved farther away on a long-anticipated shift to the north-northeast that would eventually bring it as a possibly fierce but nontropical storm to Nova Scotia, Canada.

A tropical storm warning remained in effect for the central Bahamas, but the hurricane center said the watch and warning would likely be discontinued on Thursday night.

The British mid-Atlantic territory of Bermuda posted a gale warning, just in case Noel veered more to the east than forecast, U.S. hurricane forecasters said.

The center of Noel was 115 miles north-northeast of Nassau, Bahamas, and was moving north-northeast at a brisk 17 mph, the hurricane center said. The storm's speed was expected to increase over the next 24 hours.

The storm is expected to douse eastern Cuba with another 1 to 2 inches of rain, and North Carolina's Outer Banks could receive an inch.

TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION

The northernmost islands of the Bahamas were still feeling Noel's onslaught on Thursday and several churches opened as shelters on the island of Abaco.

"We are laying on food and the people are bedding down on the floors of the churches," Red Cross volunteer Barbara Johnson said.

Residents of Long Island in the central Bahamas suffered "devastating" losses as the storm dumped a record 15 inches (38 cm) of rain on the island over two days, the National Emergency Management Agency said. The storm caused flood levels on the island not seen for 60 years and families at several settlements were forced to evacuate homes and businesses as water reached a depth of 3 feet in some places.

The storm left a trail of waterlogged death and destruction in the Caribbean after slamming the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba with unrelenting downpours.

At least 73 people died in the Dominican Republic, many of them swept away in muddy floodwaters after two rivers burst their banks and tore through the village of Villa Altagracia outside Santo Domingo.

Thirty-four people were confirmed killed in Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, said Alta Jean-Baptiste, head of the civil protection service.

In Jamaica, one person died when a house collapsed because of heavy rain.

In Cuba, thousands were evacuated from vulnerable areas and reservoirs overflowed, but no deaths were reported.

U.S. forecasters projected the 14th named storm of the 2007 Atlantic storm season would quickly lose its tropical characteristics as it sped to the northeast toward Nova Scotia with powerful extratropical winds.

(Additional reporting by John Marquis in Nassau and Manuel Jimenez in Santo Domingo) 
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