Haiti, for its part, took measures this Monday in light of the storm’s passage from Tuesday evening and declared the level of yellow alert, given the country’s high risk of heavy rains, high winds and flooding.
As reported by Civil Protection, if the trajectory is maintained, the center of the storm will hit the southern part of the country, especially the departments of Sud, Grand’Anse and Nippes, starting tomorrow evening, and spread to the rest of Haiti. .
Specifically, the southern peninsula of Haiti is threatened from tomorrow by torrential rain, gusts of wind and rough seas.
Faced with this situation, the Hydrometeorological Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development, in conjunction with Civil Protection and the Permanent Secretariat for Disaster Risk Management, declared the level of yellow supervision for possible landslides, landslides and strong waves, in addition to heavy rains, strong winds and flooding.
Although the formal evacuation order has not yet been issued, the General Directorate of Civil Protection calls on communities exposed to risks of landslides, strong waves, landslides and floods to prepare for them,” the agency said.
He added that given the advance of Tropical Storm Franklin through the Caribbean Sea, Civil Protection is stepping up its mobilization and preparing to “launch measures to help the population, including the services responsible for evacuation and shelter management.” .
He United States National Hurricane Center (NHC, in its acronym in English) has issued a tropical storm warning for the southern coast of the Dominican Republic, from the border with Haiti east to the tourist island of Saona, and also for the southern coast of Haiti, from Anse d’Hainaut up to the border region.
In addition, a tropical storm watch is in effect for the entire northern Dominican coast, eastern Haiti, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Source: El heraldo
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