Hurricane Ernesto has dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and knocked out power for nearly half of all customers in the U.S. territory.
Thursday, August 15, 2024 9:57AMHurricane Ernesto dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and knocked out power for nearly half of all customers in the U.S. territory Wednesday as it threatened to strengthen into a major hurricane en route to Bermuda .
"I know it was a long night listening to that wind howl," U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. said at a news conference. "A lot of rain, a lot of rain," Culebra Mayor Edilberto Romero said in a phone interview. "We have trees that have fallen on public roads. There are some roofs that are blown off."In the north coastal town of Toa Baja, which is prone to flooding, dozens of residents moved their cars to higher areas.
"Residents need to prepare now before conditions worsen," Bermuda's National Security Minister Michael Weeks said. "Now is not the time for complacency.""That means that anybody who goes to the beach, even if the weather is beautiful and nice, it could be dangerous ... with those rip currents," said Robbie Berg, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center.
Luma Energy said earlier Wednesday that its priority was to restore power to hospitals, the island's water and sewer company and other essential services. More than 300,000 customers were without water as a result of power outages, Pierluisi said. Not everyone can afford generators on the island of 3.2 million people with a more than 40% poverty rate.
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