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The storm tropical Emily, accompanied by heavy rain, was expected Wednesday evening in Dominican Republic and Haiti, where the authorities were preparing to evacuate tens of thousands of people living in tents since the January 2010 earthquake. -(AFP/Noaa)
The storm tropical Emily, accompanied by heavy rain, was expected Wednesday evening in Dominican Republic and Haiti, where the authorities were preparing to evacuate tens of thousands of people living in tents since the January 2010 earthquake.
In Haiti, emergency operations Centre national said stand ready to assist, where appropriate, to approximately 300,000 people, and more than 1,200 shelters have been made available to accommodate the displaced.
The authorities fear that pop-up floods create havoc in the makeshift camps installed in Port - au-Prince since the earthquake, where there are thousands of families in precarious conditions.
If the storm unleashed on the Haitian capital, emergency services may quickly find themselves overwhelmed.
"There is room for 30,000 people" at Port - in Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area, "it is largely insufficient," explained a close person of Civil Protection, speaking under cover of anonymity.
According to this source, schools, churches and other public buildings have been requisitioned, but lack most of the time of sanitary facilities.
"Several camps at risk will require an evacuation", but it will be decided that at the last moment, i.e. when the storm arrives, to be organized according to its severity, has added this source.
Another reason for concern: floods may lead to an outbreak of cholera epidemic, which made 5.821 dead since it first appeared last October, the water being one of the main vectors of the disease. A team of Cuban doctors stood ready to intervene if necessary.
21 H 00 GMT, Emily was 95 km to the South-South-West of the Beata island at the southern tip of the Dominican Republic and progressed to the West at a speed of 22 kmh, with winds blowing at 85 kmh, said the national Centre of us hurricanes (NHC), based in Miami.
At this pace, the storm had to touch the island of Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, to the "end of day", before continuing its path towards the Bahamas and the Islands-and-Caicos, Thursday, according to the NHC.
"At the present time, the storm should do feel its effects on certain parts of the Dominican Republic, mainly on the South coast," explains the NHC in its release.
Emily could lead to 15-30 cm of precipitation, floods and dangerous mudslides in Haiti and Dominican Republic, have warned us experts.
The Haitian authorities have decreed Tuesday morning warning red on the whole of the territory and called the inhabitants to leave areas at risk.
The national center of meteorology and marine and navigation of Haiti Service banned the navigation along the South coast of the country.
"All departments of Haiti are affected by the storm tropical Emily", said the Director of the Centre, Ronald Semelfort.
The Dominican Republic on the other hand was placed in maximum cyclonic alert (red alert) Tuesday in six provinces and in a State of preventive vigilance in seven other regions.
The Dominican authorities have also suspended recreation on all the coasts and rivers of the country.
Emily made a victim by electrocution Tuesday on the island of Martinique. Firefighters found a 62 year man lying in the water, an extension cord in hand, at his home in the popular district Volga of Fort-de-France, which is flooded.
Hope that Emily won't bring these type of damage in DR and Haiti, they don't need after the last quake in 2010.
