LA HABANA – An intensified tropical typhoon Eta made landfall Sunday night at Lower Matecumbe Caye in Florida, days after killing dozens and leaving more than a hundred missing in Mexico and Central America.
The U. S. National Hurricane Center has been in the middle of the world. But it’s not the first time In Miami he has declared typhoon surge warnings for the Keys from Ocean Reef to Dry Turtles, adding Florida Bay.
Florida officials have closed COVID beaches, ports and control sites, closed public transportation, and suggested citizens not to travel. Several shelters have also been opened in Miami and the Florida Keys for citizens of mobile homes and low areas. user Monday and Miami about to do the same.
On Sunday night, the government in Lauderhill, Florida, responded to a report of a car entering a canal. Photographs taken by firefighters on site about 48 miles north of Miami showed rescuers looking for what gave the impression of being flooded water near a parking lot. Lot.
Firefighters pulled a user out of a car and took the patient to a critical hospital, according to a Lauderhill Fire public data officer. Respondents continued to search for others.
Eta had sustained maximum winds of one hundred km/h on Sunday night and focused about 30 miles (45 kilometers) east-northeast of Marathon, Florida, and 70 miles (115 kilometers) east-northeast of Key West. 14 mph (22 km/h).
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The typhoon grew rivers and flooded coastal spaces in Cuba, where another 25,000 people had been evacuated, but no deaths were reported.
Eta hit Cuba earlier, while researchers in Guatemala were still digging in search of other people who would be buried by a large landslide caused by rain. On Sunday, the government estimated the death toll of 27 to 15 and said more than a hundred were missing in Guatemala, many in the landslide of San Cristobal Verapaz.
Some 60,000 more people have been evacuated in Guatemala.
At least 20 other people have also been reported dead in southern Mexico, and Honduras’ local government has reported 21, the National Disaster Agency has shown only eight.
Pope Francis spoke this Sunday of the other people of Central America, hit “by a violent hurricane, which has caused many casualties and enormous damage, also annoyed by the already complicated scenario caused by the pandemic. “Addressing the accumulated faithful in San Pedro. Cuadrado, Francis prayed that “the Lord may welcome the deceased, comfort their families and all who have suffered so much, as well as all who do the most productive things to help them”.
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis declared Saturday the state of emergency for 8 counties at the end of the state as Eta approached, urging citizens to take an inventory. South Florida began emptying ports and a small number of shelters were opened in Miami and the Florida Keys for citizens of cell homes and low areas.
Miami-Dade County declared a state of emergency Friday night and also warned that flood tracking would be in effect until Tuesday night.
Further south, in the Keys, officials were closely following the storm, but had not yet planned to evacuate tourists or citizens, suggested citizens protect their boats, and encouraged visitors to modify plans until Eta had passed.
Eta first hit Nicaragua as a category four hurricane, and Panama’s government in Mexico was still tracking the wounded after days of torrential rains during the week.
In Guatemala, search groups first had to succeed over landslides and deep dust just to succeed at the site where the government estimated that some 150 houses had been devastated.
In the most affected village, Complaint, at least five bodies were ripped from the mud. The Aboriginal network of about 1,200 more people consisted of undeniable wooden houses and tin roofs hanging from the mountainside.
Rescuers used a helicopter to evacuate survivor Emilio Caal, who claimed to have lost up to 40 circles of relatives and relatives. Caal, 65, suffered a dislocation in his shoulder when the landslide sent rocks, trees and dirt into the space where he was about to sit. for lunch with his wife and grandchildren. Caal recounted that he had been flown several meters by the force of the slide and that none of the others had been able to leave.
“My wife died, my grandchildren died,” Caal said from a nearby hospital.
Firefighters spokesman Rubén Téllez said at least one more user died Sunday in Guatemala when a small aircraft fell while carrying emergency supplies in the crisis zone.
In neighboring Honduras, María Elena Mejoa Guadrón, 68, was killed when brown waters from the Chamelecón River poured into the Planeta district of San Pedro Sula on Thursday.
In southern Mexico, across the border with Guatemala, 20 other people died as heavy rains attributed to Eta caused landslides and streams and rivers grew, according to Chiapas state civil defense officer Elas Morales Rodríguez.
The worst incident in Mexico occurred in the mountainous municipality of Chenalhó, where another 10 people were swept away by a rain-grown stream; their bodies were later discovered downstream.
Flooding in neighboring Tabasco state was so severe that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador interrupted a trip to western Mexico and flew to Tabasco, his home state, to oversee aid efforts.
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Associated Press editors Kelli Kennedy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Marlon González in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Frances D’Emilio in Rome, Italy, contributed to the report.