Hurricane season is open in the United States. After hitting the Caribbean, Storm Elsa, once again a hurricane, was heading Tuesday July 6 towards the coasts of Florida. At 8 p.m. local Tuesday (2 hours in Paris, Wednesday), Elsa was 165 km southwest of Tampa.
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Elsa, who is moving at a speed of 22 km / h towards the north, “Is expected to make landfall along the north Florida coast on Wednesday morning before advancing into the southeastern United States on Thursday”, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported earlier. The hurricane is expected to lose power as it travels inland to ascend to Georgia and the states of South and North Carolina.
With winds blowing up to 120 km / h, the NHC decided on Tuesday evening to change its status to a category one (out of five) hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
In the northwestern part of the peninsula, the water could rise up to 1.5 meters due to the winds. The Tampa airport has suspended commercial flights from 5 p.m. local and until 10 a.m. at least Wednesday morning.
Three dead in the Caribbean
“We are calling on the people of Florida to start their preparations, and this includes the possibility of being without electricity for a few days, and of having enough food and water for each member of their family., urged Jeanette Nuñez, Florida’s deputy governor, on Tuesday. If there are evacuation orders in your area [d’habitation], it is for your own safety, the counties will open emergency shelters. “
The passage of the tropical storm comes less than two weeks after the partial collapse of a building in Surfside, a small town north of Miami, in the middle of the night on June 24. The disaster left at least 36 dead and 109 missing, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Tuesday afternoon. The remaining part of the building, dubbed Champlain Towers South, was destroyed Sunday evening in a controlled explosion, with authorities fearing the building threatens the safety of rescuers. These fears were compounded by the onset of the storm.
After killing three people in the Dominican Republic and St. Lucia, Elsa hit Cuba on Monday, leaving heavy rains but no major damage on the island, as in Haiti, a country particularly vulnerable to natural disasters. .
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