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Hurricane Elsa causes widespread damage in Barbados, St. Lucia, aims at Hispaniola
Source: Miami Herald
Hurricane Elsa causes widespread damage in Barbados, St. Lucia, aims at Hispaniola
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES, SYRA ORTIZ-BLANES, AND ADRIANA BRASILEIRO
JULY 02, 2021 06:08 PM, UPDATED JULY 02, 2021 09:00 PM
Hurricane Elsa battered the islands of St. Lucia and Barbados on Friday, tearing off rooftops, downing trees and power lines and blocking roads as it moved across the eastern Caribbean with 75 mph winds and heavy rain.
“We have been significantly affected,” Wilfred Abrahams, Barbados’ minister of home affairs, information and public affairs, said about the passage of the 2021 Atlantic season’s first hurricane. “There is widespread damage to property. There are roofs that have come off, roofs have collapsed, houses have collapsed. There are downed power lines across Barbados, live power lines, downed trees, some roads are impassable.”
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said that based on initial assessments, around 177 roofs had been damaged and at least seven homes had collapsed in the island of 287,025.
Damages have also been reported in St. Lucia. Following the all-clear shortly before 5 p.m., the director of the National Emergency Management Organization, Dorine Gustave, said crews would be out clearing roads of fallen trees and downed power lines.
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BY JACQUELINE CHARLES, SYRA ORTIZ-BLANES, AND ADRIANA BRASILEIRO
JULY 02, 2021 06:08 PM, UPDATED JULY 02, 2021 09:00 PM
Hurricane Elsa battered the islands of St. Lucia and Barbados on Friday, tearing off rooftops, downing trees and power lines and blocking roads as it moved across the eastern Caribbean with 75 mph winds and heavy rain.
“We have been significantly affected,” Wilfred Abrahams, Barbados’ minister of home affairs, information and public affairs, said about the passage of the 2021 Atlantic season’s first hurricane. “There is widespread damage to property. There are roofs that have come off, roofs have collapsed, houses have collapsed. There are downed power lines across Barbados, live power lines, downed trees, some roads are impassable.”
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said that based on initial assessments, around 177 roofs had been damaged and at least seven homes had collapsed in the island of 287,025.
Damages have also been reported in St. Lucia. Following the all-clear shortly before 5 p.m., the director of the National Emergency Management Organization, Dorine Gustave, said crews would be out clearing roads of fallen trees and downed power lines.
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Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article252535808.html
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