Hurricane bringing heavy rain to Jamaica
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October 25, 2012, Thursday
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HURRICANE Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall yesterday near the country's most populous city of Kingston on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida.
The island's international airports closed, cruise ships changed their itineraries and police ordered 48-hour curfews in major towns to keep people off the streets and deter looting as the late-season storm neared Jamaica's south coast. Police slowly drove through drenched communities in Kingston with their cruisers' lights flashing.
Sandy was forecast to make landfall in the vicinity of Kingston in afternoon and then spin on into eastern Cuba overnight. It was expected to pass west of the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said tropical storm conditions were possible along the southeast Florida coast, the Upper Keys and Florida Bay by tomorrow morning.
Across Jamaica, poor people in ramshackle shantytowns and moneyed residents in gated communities were jittery about Sandy's approach.
The storm was predicted to drop as much as 25 centimeters of rain, especially over central and eastern parts of Jamaica, the country's meteorological service said. By yesterday morning, sea water was already washing over the streets of Port Royal, a depressed fishing village at the tip of a spit of land near Kingston's airport.
The island's international airports closed, cruise ships changed their itineraries and police ordered 48-hour curfews in major towns to keep people off the streets and deter looting as the late-season storm neared Jamaica's south coast. Police slowly drove through drenched communities in Kingston with their cruisers' lights flashing.
Sandy was forecast to make landfall in the vicinity of Kingston in afternoon and then spin on into eastern Cuba overnight. It was expected to pass west of the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said tropical storm conditions were possible along the southeast Florida coast, the Upper Keys and Florida Bay by tomorrow morning.
Across Jamaica, poor people in ramshackle shantytowns and moneyed residents in gated communities were jittery about Sandy's approach.
The storm was predicted to drop as much as 25 centimeters of rain, especially over central and eastern parts of Jamaica, the country's meteorological service said. By yesterday morning, sea water was already washing over the streets of Port Royal, a depressed fishing village at the tip of a spit of land near Kingston's airport.
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