Officials in Puerto Rico shuttered schools, opened shelters and helped move dozens of the U.S. territory's endangered parrots into hurricane-proof rooms ahead of Ernesto.
Brittany Bell has the latest forecast from AccuWeather.Tropical Storm Ernesto battered the northeast Caribbean on Tuesday as it took aim at Puerto Rico, where officials shuttered schools, opened shelters and helped move dozens of the U.S. territory's endangered parrots into hurricane-proof rooms.
The storm is forecast to move over or near the U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday evening and pass just northeast and north of Puerto Rico late Tuesday and early Wednesday. Ernesto was located about 155 miles east-southeast of St. Croix on Tuesday morning. It had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and was moving west-northwest at 18 mph .
As intermittent rain pelted Puerto Rico's northeast region, residents in the impoverished community of Piñones tried to squeeze in a couple more hours of work before the storm. Officials in Puerto Rico warned of widespread power outages given the U.S. territory's crumbling electric grid, which crews are still repairing after Hurricane Maria razed it in September 2017 as a Category 4 storm.
"Don't sleep on this," said U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Albert Bryan Jr., whose administration announced early Tuesday that it was closing all schools.
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