HOUSTON (REUTERS) - Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura tore through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico on Sunday (Aug 23), forcing thousands of coastal residents in Louisiana and Cuba to evacuate and flooding roads in Haiti's capital, with damage across the region expected to worsen this week.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HOUSTON - Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura tore through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico on Sunday , forcing thousands of coastal residents in Louisiana and Cuba to evacuate and flooding roads in Haiti's capital, with damage across the region expected to worsen this week.
US President Donald Trump issued a disaster declaration on Sunday for Louisiana ahead of the storms. He had issued a similar declaration on Saturday for Puerto Rico, which suffered extensive rains from Laura. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards warned the state's residents that tropical storm-force winds would arrive by Monday morning and they should be ready to ride out both Marco and Laura if they don't leave by Sunday night.
In the Dominican Republic, at least three people died, including a mother and her 7-year-old son, due to collapsing walls. Laura left more than a million in the country without electricity, forced more than a thousand to evacuate and caused several homes along the Isabela River to collapse, authorities said.
In Cuba, many residents in the eastern city of Baracoa were evacuating homes on Sunday and heading to shelters or safer buildings on higher ground.Back-to-back hurricanes arriving at the US coast within days could result in a prolonged period of hazardous weather, the National Hurricane Center said on Sunday.
"If either storm turns into a Category 3, we're out of here," said Mr Jude Brunet, 33, who works in information technology for a New Orleans hospital.
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