Haiti braces for Grace, Florida for Fred as storms brew
Source: AP
Tropical Depression Grace drenched earthquake-damaged Haiti on Monday, threatening to dump up to 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain on a landscape where people are huddling in fields and searching for survivors. Tropical Storm Fred weakened after hitting Florida’s Gulf Coast, and Tropical Storm Henri formed around Bermuda.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Fred made landfall Monday afternoon near Cape San Blas in Florida’s Panhandle with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 km/h), but those winds had slowed to 50 mph (85 km/h) just a few hours later. The storm was moving north-northeast at 10 mph (17 km/h). Fred is expected to bring heavy rains to a swath of southeastern U.S. as in continues to move inland this week.
Emergency management officials in Gulf County, where Fred made its landfall, are receiving reports of downed trees and cautioning people to stay home and to be careful if they must travel.
“We do not need looky-loos getting hurt or getting in the way of the cleanup process,” the agency posted on social media.
People rest after spending the night at a soccer field following Saturday´s 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/tropical-storms-grace-fred-haiti-florida-25399e25d47adeee6caef042f4383290
