Ernesto’s large eye will likely be near or over Bermuda early Saturday morning, with significant coastal flooding expected.
La Plata river floods a road after Tropical Storm Ernesto passed through Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. began to pound Bermuda late Friday with heavy winds and rain after officials in the tiny British territory in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean opened shelters and closed government offices.
In preparation for the storm, officials in the wealthy British territory suspended public transportation and closed the airport on Friday night. Dangerous surf and rip currents are also possible on the Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas and Atlantic Canada during the next few days, according to the center.Bermuda is an archipelago of 181 tiny islands whose total land mass is roughly the size of Manhattan.
Ernesto previously battered the northeast Caribbean, where it left hundreds of thousands of people without power or water in Puerto Rico after swiping past the U.S. territory as a tropical storm. Like many on the island, he could not afford a generator or solar panels. Cabrera said he was relying for relief only “on the wind that comes in from the street.”
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