Havana (Reuters) - hurricane sandy, in the warm Caribbean waters increasingly powerful, slamming in eastern Cuba heavy rain and rising wind on Wednesday, it beat the communist island grab the Jamaica.
At least 55000 people have been evacuated, Cuban officials say, mainly because the expected flood heavy rains, the total could be as high as 20 inches, some places and Cuba weather bureau said, has started in southeast coastal storm surge.
And they said, surge may reach six feet, sea up to hit the coast to 26 feet.
The storm, and inherit wind 90 miles per hour, more than 88 degrees Fahrenheit (31 degrees Celsius) waters to strengthen the five steps of SaFeiEr Simpson hurricane strength grade, the United States national hurricane could rise, from class 1 second class storm center in Miami said, in the eastern United States time at 11 PM consulting.
Two kinds of storm wind at 96110 miles per hour.
Sandy is located in Cuba guantanamo to southwest 137 kilometers, and moving north to 13 miles per hour, the centre said.
Eye of the storm is expected to the nearby log in, the country's second largest city of Santiago DE Cuba, 470 is located in Havana, Cuba the weather forecast says.
They say, will in a few hours, toward the north to the Bahamas, hurricane warning published southeast in rags islands, across the island. A tropical storm watch is in place of southern Florida.
Sandy is not expected to into the gulf of Mexico, the United States has rich oil and gas production.
Flight suspension
The Cuban government to suspend flights, from eastern Cuba, as well as in the area of bus and train service.
Officials put the agricultural products include sugar and coffee damage ways into the warehouse. Nearly 3000 Cuban coffee harvest work in Santiago DE Cuba was brought home.
In AoErJinSheng, processing factory of nickel, Cuba's main export continuous operation, Cuban TV.
Cuban said, they hang article tile the hatch storm close to.
"The weather became very ugly, said:" self-employed workers esteban Mr Reilly in Santiago DE Cuba.
"I lit the candles charitable the vikings, the patron saint of Cuba, said:" sandy didn't do much damage, Mr Reilly, 45.
Retiree yolanda · perez said, in Santiago DE Cuba, she wants Cuba coastal the sierra maestra mountains, from Fidel castro and Cuba in 1959 revolution fight, will take some of the steam out of the sandy, because it move inland.
"I hope in Cuba eastern mountainous area will slow sand wind and rain, so it is not doing here much damage," she said.
In the United States in guantanamo bay naval base, nearly 50 miles per hour winds rain blow on my side Reuters Jane Sutton said, who is in the cover war crimes tribunal base, the base hotel at swords' points door.
Electric power, but limited to emergency rescue personnel dormitory, she said.
Military officials say, most of the guantanamo prison 166 prisoners have been placed in building to withstand hurricanes, and a few people don't be transferred to safe quarter.
In Jamaica, sandy caused a big electricity cut and flooded streets, damaged houses, killing at least one person has been killed.
"The balcony of my home part of the roof has been so, WoErFuDe said:" the hero, 55 years old, living in coastal cities international thermonuclear reactor experiment Boreale. "My neighbor at least five has lost the whole roof."
A police official said, a man died in love at first sight stone dropped down a hillside, he tried to go into his house in Kingston, Jamaica near the capital of a country.
Computer models predict, sandy will avoid the east coast of the United States, but, some show that it could possibly have a risk, in the northeast early next week.




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