Hanna soaks Bahamas
2008-09-01 16:55
Will Weissert
Havana - Tropical Storm Hanna soaked the Bahamas on Monday on a path that could take it up Florida's Atlantic coast.
And while Caribbean countries began cleaning up from Hurricane Gustav's destructive and deadly march, satellite imagery shows several other potential storms forming in the open Atlantic.
Hanna was drifting westward with top winds of 85km/h along "hurricane alley", dumping rain on the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southern Bahamas.
Forecasters predicted a gradual turn up the Atlantic side of the Bahamas island chain early this week.
That turn would be welcome news for Cuba, where Gustav smashed tens of thousands of homes and toppled electricity poles.
The massive storm now raking the US Gulf Coast made a direct hit on Cuba's Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth) as a powerful Category 4 hurricane on Saturday with screaming 220km/h winds, then crossed western Cuba.
Gustav earlier killed 94 people by triggering floods and landslides in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica.
- SAPA