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Tropical Storm Humberto complicate relief efforts in the area where thousands of structures were flattened and 70 000 people were left needing shelter, food and water and medical aid.with heavy rain and strong winds before crawling northwest on Saturday, and forecasters said it was likely to become a hurricane before the end of the weekend.

Forecasters said the storm could drop up to 15.24 cm of rain in some areas of the Bahamas through Monday, but it did not produce a dangerous storm surge in the northwestern islands, which were hammered earlier this month by Hurricane Dorian. Dorian slammed into the Bahamas on September 1 as a Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever to hit land, packing top sustained winds of 298 km per hour.

 

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