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Hurricane Ernesto is moving away from Puerto Rico, where schools and offices shut down Wednesday, after the Caribbean island was hit with torrential rain and flooding.. Ernesto was set to pass ...
Damaging wind gusts, flooding in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. As Ernesto pummeled Puerto Rico early Wednesday morning, officials issued flash flood warnings and the National Hurricane ...
Hurricane Ernesto was a moderately strong Atlantic hurricane that caused significant flooding in Puerto Rico before striking Bermuda as a hurricane. The fifth named storm and third hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Ernesto developed from a tropical wave east of the Leeward Islands.
Forecasters say Ernesto, the second named Atlantic storm in a week, could cause flooding and mudslides by dropping 4 to 6 inches of rain on the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, as well as 6 to 8 ...
In Puerto Rico, the highest rainfall total was 2.4 inches (61 mm) in Rio Piedras. [5] August 22–23 – Tropical Storm Dean dropped heavy rainfall across Puerto Rico, peaking at 12.7 inches (322 mm) in Salinas. The passage of Dean resulted in widespread flooding in eastern and southern Puerto Rico, collapsing two bridges and one road.
1970 – Caribbean–Azores hurricane struck Puerto Rico as a tropical depression, it was the wettest tropical cyclone on record to affect Puerto Rico. [90] The depression left 10,000 people homeless across Puerto Rico, [91] with 3,000 housed in emergency shelters in San Juan. [92] At least 600 houses were destroyed and another 1,000 damaged. [93]
For Puerto Rico, the worst of the storm is Tuesday night into early Wednesday. On Tuesday, Ernesto will move through the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. Tropical Storm Ernesto to bring rain ...
[138] In an update on October 19, the agency called the situation in Puerto Rico "unacceptable" and called for "a more robust and efficient response from the US government". [139] A rally for victims of the hurricane and Puerto Rico's status in general, in Long Beach, California, on October 3. On October 3, 2017, President Trump visited Puerto ...