Barbados, St Vincent feel brunt of Hurricane Elsa
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ROOF FLYING: A screen grab of a video which circulated on social media shows the roof of a house going flying after being ripped off by winds caused by Hurricane Elsa which slammed into Barbados on Friday. The storm also affected other islands in the Eastern Caribbean including St Lucia and Grenada. -
THE passage of Hurricane Elsa across the Windward Islands resulted in power outages, fallen trees, flooding and damaged homes in Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
At 8.30 am on Friday, Tropical Storm Elsa was upgraded to a category 1 hurricane and Barbados was put under a hurricane warning.