Tempête tropicale Gustave : alerte rouge

La tempête tropicale Gustave se déplace en direction Nord-Ouest vers l’île d’Haïti.
Selon le Système national de gestion des risques et désastres (SNGRD), elle (la tempête) pourrait déverser entre 120 et 200 millimètres de pluies sur les plaines et 300 à 600 millimètres de pluies sur les reliefs à compter de la soirée de ce lundi 25 août.
Selon le SNGRD, « les vents maximum sont estimés à 95 km/h avec possibilité de renforcement dans les prochaines vingt-quatre heures. (…)

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Selon la trajectoire du cyclone, demain l'oeil du cyclone devrait passer au-dessus des Cayes.

On prevoit que le cyclone prendra 48 heures pour traverser la presqu-ile du Sud.

Que Dieu nous protege!

E nou pa pare pou siklonn saa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Haiti ill-prepared ahead of Hurricane Gustav
Storm's eye on collision course with Port-au-Prince and Cuba's south coast
The Associated Press
updated 5:19 a.m. PT, Tues., Aug. 26, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Rapidly growing Hurricane Gustav headed for a collision with impoverished Haiti on Tuesday, driving many Haitians off the potholed streets of the capital, but bringing few other outward signs of preparation.

The storm was also on track to slice along the south coast of Cuba during the week — possibly growing into a perilous Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds by the weekend, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Forecasters said the hurricane's maximum sustained winds were near 85 mph Tuesday morning, with higher gusts. They said it could become a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 96 mph or higher before hitting Haiti.

Forecasts suggested that Gustav's eye might pass near the capital of Port-au-Prince, home to nearly 3 million people.

'Precautions'
A light rain fell on Port-au-Prince as the sun rose on an overcast Tuesday. The city's rough streets, often bustling with commerce at the crack of dawn, were largely empty as merchants took refuge.

"The government orders the population to take precautions because this storm will bring a lot of rain," Interior Minister Paul Antonine Bien-Aime told Radio Ginen in an interview repeated several times early Tuesday.

Preparations for the storm appeared to be minimal and in the hurricane-prone southwestern city of Les Cayes, smack in the hurricane's path, at least some people without access to television or satellite images said they doubted a storm was even approaching.

"There's no rain and wind, the sky is clear, cars are traveling everywhere. I don't think there's a hurricane," Marc Andre, a 22-year-old motorcycle taxi driver, said over his cell phone.

The hurricane was centered about 100 miles south-southeast of Port-au-Prince and was moving toward the northwest at near 9 mph.

Gitmo braces
On Monday, Carnival Cruise Lines diverted one of its ships from Montego Bay, Jamaica, to a Mexican port to avoid the storm, company spokesman Vance Gulliksen said. Other cruise lines said they were closely tracking its path.

The commander of the Guantanamo military base in Cuba, where the U.S. holds about 265 men, many suspected of belonging to al-Qaida or the Taliban, ordered U.S. military personnel to prepare for a hit.

Vulnerable to high winds are dozens of tents pitched on an abandoned runway where those attending war-crimes trials for alleged terrorists are housed. No hearings are scheduled this week.

Army Maj. Richard Morehouse, a spokesman for detention operations at the base, told The Associated Press that the lockups housing detainees "are capable of withstanding hurricane-force winds and rain."


Earlier this month, Tropical Storm Fay killed 23 people on the island of Hispaniola shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Nearly all were due to flooded rivers.

Meanwhile, the remnants of Fay brought heavy rain and winds from Georgia to Louisiana. Floridians were still mopping up floodwaters from a storm that stuck around for a week and made a historic four landfalls, dumping more than 30 inches of rain along the central Atlantic coast.

The National Weather Service said the vestiges of Fay would deluge northern Georgia, with 3 inches to 5 inches of rain expected in the Atlanta area and up to 8 inches in northeast Georgia. In Alabama, flash flood and tornado warnings were posted.

In Mexico, Tropical Depression Julio continued to weaken as it dumped rain on the central Baja California peninsula and the upper Gulf of California.

The National Hurricane Center said Julio was about 110 miles north-northwest of Santa Rosalia, Mexico, with sustained winds of about 30 mph.


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