Mittwoch, 14. November 2012

Hurricane Sandy makes landfall among Bahamas

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NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) Hurricane Sandy barreled into the Bahamas aboard Thursday back slashing across Asian Cuba, where it ripped off roofs and forced postponement of a hearing at the Guantanamo naval base yet caused not reported deaths.

The Category 2 tornado killed four people elsewhere among the Caribbean, and forecasters warned it ambition possible merge with a winter storm to cause a super storm in the U.S.after week whose effects ambition be felt along the plenary East Coast from Florida to Maine and inland apt Ohio.

The tornado was located nearly 60 miles (95 kilometers) southeast of Eleuthera late Thursday afternoon as it neared Cat Island surrounded the chief Bahamas. The storm was moving north at 20 mph (32 kph), with highest sustained winds of 105 mph (165 kph).

Power was additionally out aboard Acklins Island and highest roads there were flooded, said administration administrator Berkeley Williams.

He said his biggest concern is that a boat filled with basic supplies for the island canceled its outgoing until after week.

"Supplies were low along so you can imagine what we are going through immediately Williams said.

On Ragged Island among the southern Bahamas, the lone educate was flooded, "we have holes in roofs, lost shingles and power lines are down," said Charlene Bain,regional Red Cross president"But nobody lost a life, that's the important thing."

People across the Bahamas formed long lines apt stock up aboard water, canned goods, flashlights and other items, leaving grocery store shelves nearly vacant.

Sooner Halvorson, a 36-year-old hostel boss from Colorado who recently moved to the Bahamas, said she and her husband, Matt,anticipate to ride out the storm with their two young kid three cats, two dogs and a goat by their Cat Island resort.

"We brought all of our animals inside," she said,though she additional that a horse stayed outdoor"She's a 40-year-old horse from the island. She's been amongst tons of hurricanes."

Bernard Ferguson,boss of Tranquility On The Bay Resort among Crooked Island, said ponderous rains are a big concern.

"Some settlements are hack off from the vacation of the island for the flooding is so deep," he said.

Steven Russell,one emergency management lawful surrounded Nassau, said that docks on the western side of Great Inagua island have been fully destroyed and that the dome of a government building was partially ripped off.

"As the storm passes over Eleuthera and Cat Island, they ought obtain a beautiful comely beating," he said. "There are sections of Eleuthera we are concerned virtually"

The massive Atlantis resort went into lockdown mode backward dozens of tourists left Paradise Island before the airport closed, said George Markantonis,chancellor and managing guide of Kerzner International, which manages the resort. He said the resort is quickly less than half full,merely always its restaurants, casinos and additional facilities are still operating.

Hurricane Sandy was expected apt churn through the main and northwest Bahamas late Thursday and early Friday. It also might bring tropical storm conditions along the southeastern Florida coast, the Upper Keys and Florida Bay by Friday a m .

With storm conditions projected apt beat New Jersey with tropical storm-force winds aboard Tuesday, there is a 90 percent accident that most of the East Coast ambition obtain steady gale-force winds, flooding,cumbersome rain and perhaps snow starting Sunday and stretching past Wednesday, said U.S. forecaster Jim Cisco.

Sandy was blamed as the death of one aged masculine among Jamaica who was killed when a boulder crashed into his clapboard house, police said. Another male and two women died meantime trying apt cross storm-swollen rivers in southwestern Haiti.

Officials reported flooding across Haiti, where many of the 370,000 people still displaced along the devastating 2010 earthquake scrambled as asylum More than 1,000 folk were evacuated from eleven palpitate settlements, according to the International Organization for Migration.

In Cuba, authorities said they were worried almost the abuse Hurricane Sandy might have inflicted among small mountain villages still unheard from,merely no deaths were reported.

"It crossed the entire Asian region practically without losing intensity alternatively structure said Jose Rubiera, the island's capital meteorologist.

Santiago, Cuba's second largest city approximate the eastern tip of the island, was spared the worst of the storm, which slammed into the provinces of Granma, Holguin and Las Tunas.

Cuban President Raul Castro ordered authorities to evaluate abuse throughout eastern Cuba, and state media said they expected apt release more information throughout the daytime.

There were not reports of injuries at the U.S.military base along Guantanamo Bay within Cuba,yet there were downed trees and power lines, said Kelly Wirfel, a base spokeswoman. Officials had canceled a naval court session scheduled for Thursday for the prisoner charged within the 2000 assault aboard the Navy destroyer USS Cole.

Far out amid the Atlantic, post-tropical cyclone Tony kept weakening and posed no threat apt on The storm had highest sustained winds of almost 40 mph (65 kph) and was moving east-northeast along 22 mph (35 kph). Its median was almost 615 miles (990 kilometers) southwest of the Azores.

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Associated Press writers Danica Coto within San Juan, Puerto Rico, David McFadden among Kingston, Jamaica, Trenton Daniel among Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Ben Fox amid Guantanamo, Cuba, Seth Borenstein in Washington, D.C., Juan McCartney surrounded Nassau, Bahamas and Fernando Gonzalez, Paul Haven, Andrea Rodriguez and Anne-Marie Garcia in Havana contributed to this report.
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Kelly Clarkson apt star by Endymion pageant pellet krewe plans biggest ever float

NEW ORLEANS - Pop star Kelly Clarkson longing ride for celebrity grand marshal while the Krewe of Endymion pageant rolls aboard the Saturday ahead Mardi Gras amid 2013.

Clarkson was the 1st winner of the Fox reality show "American Idol"among 2002. Her hits include "A Moment Like This" and "Because of You."

The krewe said she also ambition doing by Endymion's ball by the Superdome then the pageant.

Clarkson may be upstaged by the Feb.nine pageant by a float organizers bill because the largest and maximum elaborate amid Carnival history.

The super float will be 250 feet long and carry extra than 200 riders. Its devise focuses aboard Pontchartrain Beach, the fun park that entertained generations aboard the New Orleans lakefront ahead closing within 1983.

The float, which namely still below construction,will be divided into sections so it can tell turns aboard New Orleans streets.

Clarkson's persona and renderings of the float were revealed during a news conference Thursday by Mardi Gras World, the laboratory operated onward the Kern home Kern builds highest of the floats acclimate among Carnival parades surrounded New Orleans.

Parade floats typically range among width to virtually 50 feet and can carry virtually 40 riders. But within 1969, the Bacchus krewe introduced larger floats, sparking a new swing of showmanship by Carnival.

Endymion has long been known as its huge and glitzy floats, and for somebody riders.

"We've even topped ourselves," said Ed Muniz, the krewe's captain who was one of its founders among 1967.

Barry Kern,president and CEO of Mardi Gras World and Blaine Kern Studios, which began building floats around a centenary antecedent says the pace of float construction has stepped up because Mardi Gras falls so approach apt the Super Bowl. The BFL championship game will be played at the Superdome on Feb three.

Mardi Gras namely Feb. 12,yet more than a dozen parades reel within the week leading up to Fat Tuesday. The huge ones that feature somebody float riders include Endymion, Orpheus, Bacchus and Muses. Dozens of additional parades are set throughout the Carnival season within Louisiana and coastal Mississippi and Alabama.

Kern said surplus planning went into making the super float than any other within his studio's history. He said it's aboard target apt be the maximum technologically advanced, with surplus lights and animated sculptures than any additional float Kern has built.

Kern said the float aspiration be aboard public exhibit after its Endymion debut by Mardi Gras World.
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