Antony Exilien secures the roof of his house in response to Tropical Storm Elsa, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jul 3, 2021. HAVANA: Cuba evacuated 70,000 people along the island’s southern region on Sunday amid fears that tropical storm Elsa could unleash heavy flooding after battering several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people.
On Sunday morning, Elsa was located about 80 kilometres north of Kingston, Jamaica, and was heading west-northwest at 20kmh. It had maximum sustained winds of about 95kmh, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.“After Elsa emerges over the Florida Straits and the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, some slight restrengthening is possible,'' it said.
Elsa was a Category 1 hurricane up until Saturday morning, causing widespread damage in several eastern Caribbean islands on Friday as the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. Among the hardest hit was Barbados, where more than 1,100 people reported damaged houses, including 62 homes that completely collapsed as the government promised to find and fund temporary housing to avoid clustering people in shelters amid the pandemic.
An electrical pole felled by Hurricane Elsa leans on the edge of a residential balcony, in Cedars, St Vincent, on Jul 2, 2021.
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