#83 Postby cycloneye » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:18 pm
Very sad news from Dominica.My prayers to the families of the people that died.
Tropical Storm Erika began to lose steam Friday over Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but it left behind a trail of destruction that killed at least 20 people on the small eastern Caribbean island of Dominica, authorities said.
Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said in a televised address late Friday that the island has been set back 20 years in the damage inflicted by the storm.
"This is a period of national tragedy," he said, adding that hundreds of homes, bridges and roads have been destroyed. "We have, in essence, to rebuild Dominica."
Tropical Storm Erika dumped 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain on the mountainous island before it cut Friday into Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where it topped trees and power lines.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/035a00a5 ... d-dominica
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