USA are waiting for Matthew. Thousands of people are fleeing from Florida – Polish Radio

wind Speed sometimes exceeds 200 kilometers per hourPhoto: PAP/EPA/Alejandro Ernesto

the United Nations has recognized the transition from the elements, which accompany heavy rains, the biggest humanitarian crisis in Haiti in 2010, when the country’s devastating earthquake. It killed more than 200 thousand. people.

on Tuesday, the wind was blowing at a speed of more than 220 kilometers per hour. Sunday, the disaster has led to the deaths of at least five people, including two on Tuesday, when collapsed their house near the capital of Haiti – Port-AU-Prince. According to emergency services in the South of the country destroyed more than 200 homes. Thousands of people were forced to take refuge in safe places.

the Local authorities, the port city of Les Cayes, in the South-West, prevailing describe the situation there as “catastrophic”. 70 th city under water, everywhere lie uprooted trees, hard to move around.

Hospitals are overcrowded, not enough one with clean water. Rescuers have problems to reach those in need of assistance. UNICEF notes that the situation threatens the safety of children and water pollution could lead to outbreak of diseases.

Element, it destroyed the main bridge connecting the southern city of Grand-Goave the capital and caused serious problems with the connection to the telephone and the Internet around Port-AU-Prince and in the South. Because of these problems, it is difficult to assess what damages Matthew caused in this poorest country of the region. According to the forecasts in the hills of Haiti, expected to fall nearly a meter of snow, and precipitation threaten new floods and osunięciami earth that can destroy nearby villages and slums of Port-AU-Prince.

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In the Dominican Republic the number of evacuees increased to more than 21 thousand Was destroyed approx. 450 homes, and 31 cities, cut off from the world.

In the capital Santo Domingo, a hurricane killed five-year-old boy and 55-year-old man. Under the collapsed house of death suffered by two girls aged seven and eight years.

in the center of the storm passed in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday on the northeast coast of Cuba and is close now to the Bahamas. According to early reports in Cuba of the disaster had not caused much devastation on Haiti. The Communist authorities for many days preparing for the transition of Matthew, and the volunteers helped the residents to evacuate and protect the house.

military-United States Navy evacuated approx. 700 family members of the staff of the American base in Guantanamo.

the national Hurricane Center in Miami seemed in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday a warning for Florida on the elements. For the coast of this state, he must reach Thursday night.

the consequences of the hurricane in the days that follow can feel the inhabitants of the part of the States of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The Governor of the latter state ordered to evacuate more than a million people, starting from Wednesday. In turn, on Monday, the Governor of Florida declared a state of emergency in the region.

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