Cuba evacuates more than 100,000 as Tropical Storm Elsa skirts southern provinces
Jacqueline Charles, Adriana Brasileiro, and Syra Ortiz-Blanes, The Miami Herald
MIAMI — Tropical Storm Elsa was skirting Cuba’s southern provinces on Sunday afternoon and dumping heavy rain after lashing Jamaica and the southern coast of Haiti, where its strong wind gusts crushed crops. Two deaths were reported in the Dominican Republic and one in St. Lucia.
Elsa was moving just southwest of Pilón, in the Cuban province of Granma, and was moving northwest at around 14 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said in its 5 p.m. advisory.