The ALpha (2005) & the Omega (2012), the beginning & the end of Seven
Years of Great Tribulation......
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UNCLE WALLY
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Alpha leaves at least 8 dead in Haiti
Three missing in Dominican Republic as storm weakens
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Alpha, the Atlantic season's
record-breaking 22nd named storm, left at least eight people dead and
23 missing in Haiti before moving north into the Atlantic Ocean and
weakening into a tropical depression, authorities said Monday.
At least three people also were missing in the neighborhing Dominican
Republic as mudslides and overflowing rivers flooded streets and
destroyed homes, according to officials in both countries.
Alpha passed over the two nations that share the Caribbean island of
Hispaniola and heavy rains on ground already saturated from other
recent storms, including Hurricane Wilma -- which was blamed for 12
deaths in Haiti. (Full story)
Alpha rumbled ashore Saturday as a tropical storm with maximum winds of
50 mph near the southern Dominican town of Barahona and doused the
region with showers.
It was later downgraded to a tropical depression after passing over the
mountainous zone near the Dominican border with Haiti. The system moved
into the open Atlantic after passing over the southeastern Bahamas. It
posed no threat to the United States and was expected to dissipate.
Emergency authorities were still assessing the damage from Alpha, and
the death toll could rise, Maria Alta Jean Baptiste, the head of
Haiti's civil protection agency, told reporters.
The deaths from Alpha included three people who drowned in flooding in
the village of Anse Rouge in northern Haiti and a fourth in the
northeastern town of Hinche, Jean Baptiste said.
In the south, two people were swept away to their deaths after a river
broke its banks in rural Grande Anse, Jean Baptiste said. Two people
died after being electrocuted during flooding, one in the
Port-au-Prince suburb of Carrefour and the other in the southern town
of Jacmel.
Floods and mudslides damaged or destroyed at least 400 homes around the
country, leaving hundreds stranded in shelters, said Abel Nazaire of
Haiti's Risk and Disaster Management agency.
Twenty-three people have been reported missing since the storm in
Haiti, including 19 who were swept away by floodwaters in the town of
Leogane, west of the capital.
"We are conducting searches right now, and we're extremely worried,"
Leogane Mayor Taylor Rigaud said in a telephone interview. He said
dozens of families were in shelters after their homes were inundated.
In the Dominican Republic, authorities searched Monday for two
fishermen who went missing at sea during the storm, said Jose Luis
German, spokesman for the country's emergency operations committee.
Officials were also searching for a 14-year-old boy who was swept away
by floodwaters in the northern town of Guaricanos, German said.
The Atlantic storm season officially ends November 30.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/10/24/alpha.ap/index.html
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