Hanna made landfall in the CarolinasTropical Storm Hanna moved quickly on the coasts of the Carolinas yesterday morning, with strong winds and heavy rains, but apparently caused little damage in its path toward New England in the north.
The National Hurricane Center noted that Hanna made landfall at approximately 3:20 in the morning yesterday. The storm had winds with speeds close to 112 kph (70 mph) shortly before landfall, close to the strength of a hurricane, but was expected to weaken its internarse.
In Virginia, 20 thousand users were without electricity. The state police closed all northbound lanes to the highway Interstate 95 north of Richmond because of the despondency of power lines around 8:30 am.
The Coast Guard closed all waterways in the port of Hampton Roads, the bottom of the east coast of Maryland and the river port of Richmond, Virginia, on the James River.
Heavy rains fell in the Carolinas, including 12.7 centimeters (five inches) in Fayetteville and the Sandhills region. A similar forecast was issued for Virginia, Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, where in some places could fall up to 25 centimeters (10 inches) of water. Meteorologists warned possibility of sudden flooding in the states of the coast averaged Atlanta and southern New England.
Hanna, who is moving at high speed along the coast of Atlanta, will leave North Carolina at noon. It started to rain and encresparse the sea off the coast of New Jersey, and the storm should reach the New England states today Sunday morning.
Notices and tropical storm warnings were issued from the Carolinas to Massachusetts, including all of the Chesapeake Bay, the metropolitan area of Washington and New York, the island of Long Island. The storm caused extensive flooding and more than 160 dead in Haiti.
Officials of emergency management are looking to move to observe the hurricane Hanna Ike, which is hundreds of miles away in the Atlanta Ocean. With category 3 with winds of up to 184 kph (115 mph), Ike could arrive on Monday in southern Florida.
Ike is more powerful than Hanna and could stretch south of Florida Monday morning while Hanna tour of Canada in northern Atlanta.
"Hanna moves northward very quickly, leaving behind it a sunny weather over the weekend," said the spokesman for the mayor of Myrtle Beach, Mark Kruea.
