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| Tropical Storm Alpha Drenches Hispaniola |
| 2005-10-24 |
| Tropical Storm Alpha drenched Haiti and the Dominican Republic with torrential rains Sunday, sending rivers crashing over their banks, washing away homes and threatening to set off deadly flooding and mudslides in soaked areas. In Haiti's Port-au-Prince capital, the lashing rains closed the airport and turned main streets into muddy streams and tossed piles of trash and basketball-sized stones into the road. Cars and buses slowly forded through brown, axle-deep water on the main road to the south of the city. Alpha, which formed south of the Dominican Republic on Saturday, became the record-breaking 22nd named storm of the 2005 Atlantic season, rumbling ashore near the southern Dominican town of Barahona with maximum winds of 50 mph and dousing the region with showers. |
| Posted by:Fred |