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Cuba evacuates more than 100,000 as Tropical Storm Elsa skirts southern provinces Adriana Brasileiro, Jacqueline Charles, and Syra Ortiz-Blanes, The Miami Herald
Jul. 4 After skirting Cuba s southern provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba and Granma, Tropical Storm Elsa was moving away from the island s southern coast Sunday evening after dumping heavy rain and 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.
The government of Cuba discontinued a hurricane watch for the Cuban provinces of Guantanamo, Holguin, and Santiago de Cuba, the National Hurricane Center said in its 8 p.m. advisory. Jamaica also discontinued its tropical storm warning.
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.
Tropical storm Elsa leaves three dead across Caribbean as it heads for Jamaica and Cuba Jacqueline Charles, Syra Ortiz-Blanes, and Adriana Brasileiro, The Miami Herald
Jul. 3 Tropical Storm Elsa continued to churn through the Caribbean Saturday night, leaving at least three people dead as flooding and mudslides remained a threat into Sunday for Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
The Caribbean Disaster Management Agency confirmed that at least one person had died in St. Lucia when the storm, upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane Friday morning, battered the tourist haven along with the eastern Caribbean island nations of Barbados and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.