tropical storm fiona it intensified into a hurricane on Sunday as it approached the coast of Puerto Rico.
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fionaadvanced at wind speeds up to 130 km / h, threatening Port Rich With heavy rains and landslides.
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About 344,000 people remained. without electricity in their homes, which is 23% of users of the population.
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Authorities expected 20 to 25 inches (508 to 635 mm) of rain in isolated areas Port Rich.
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fiona already caused serious damage when he passed through Guadeloupe Friday evening.
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In some places in this French territory, the water rose by more than 1.50 meters.
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The man died in Guadeloupeswept along with his house by the flood of the river.
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As the surface of the oceans warms, the frequency hurricanes more virulent, with stronger winds and heavy rains.
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It is expected that on Tuesday the center fiona pass near the British Turks and Caicos Islands.
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hurricane fiona came to Dominican Republic resulting in at least one death and more than 12,000 displaced persons.
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Major General Juan Mendez Garcia, director of the Center for Emergency Operations (COE), confirmed the death of one person in Nagua, north of Dominican Republic.
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The deceased man was cutting down a tree in his house for prevention.
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Rain and strong winds forced the mobilization of 12,485 people to “safe areas” from early Monday morning, 1,047 of them to state-run shelters.
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In a number of sectors there are interruptions in electricity and water supply.
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Hurricane rose to Category 2 out of five on the Saffir-Simpson scale, according to the latest report from the US National Hurricane Center. USA.
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Residents of poor neighborhoods in this region, one of the areas on alert due to Hurricanewalked this Monday between their wooden houses in ankle-deep water.
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Flooded streets, blocked roads and power poles are also gone in the meantime fiona in Bavaro, Verona and Friusa, in Punta Cana.
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center Hurricanehowever, is already outside the territory of the Dominican Republic, so the Council of Europe has reduced the status of “red alert” to 7 provinces out of 32 in the country.
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President Luis Abinader has previously declared three eastern provinces “disaster zones”: La Altagracia, to which the tourist Punta Cana belongs, El Seibo and Ato Mayor.
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Estimated fiona will continue to intensify and rains will continue with possible new “catastrophic” flooding on Tuesday in both Puerto Rico and eastern Puerto Rico. Dominican Republic.
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Source: RPP
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