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Bermuda braces as Hurricane Bill approaches
Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:07pm EDT
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HAMILTON (Reuters) - Bermuda advised its residents on Friday to stay off the streets to avoid rain, battering surf and flooding as Hurricane Bill, weakened but still a powerful storm, followed a path between the island and the U.S. East Coast.
The core of the large hurricane was expected to stay over the open Atlantic as it passes west of Bermuda early on Saturday and east of Cape Cod in Massachusetts early on Sunday, before starting to skirt eastern Canada later on Sunday.
Bill could threaten some oil and natural gas platforms and refineries in eastern Canada.
Officials from the Canadian Hurricane Center said they expect the storm to pass along Nova Scotia's eastern shore on Sunday and hit southeastern areas of Newfoundland and Labrador on Sunday night or early Monday morning.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Bill, the first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season, had become a little less organized and its maximum sustained winds had dropped slightly to near 105 mph.
It was a Category 2 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity and its strength was expected to fluctuate in the next day or two.
Shops and businesses closed early in Bermuda to allow people in the 20 square mile (53 sq km) British territory, which is a center for the global insurance industry, to go home and prepare for Bill's passing 230 miles to the west.
The Bermuda weather service said Bill's storm tide would raise water levels by as much as 3 feet (1 meter) above ground level along the coast, and cause "large and dangerous battering waves".
At 11 p.m. EDT (0300 GMT), the hurricane's center was about 180 miles west-southwest of Bermuda.
'STAY CLOSE TO HOME'
Bermudian authorities warned the island's 68,000 inhabitants to stay alert.
"Stay off the roads, stay off the beaches and stay close to home -- please think safety first," Acting Home Affairs Minister Walter Roban urged.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, wrapped up a brief private vacation in Bermuda and left the island ahead of the storm on Thursday, the State Department said.
The Miami-based NHC said there was only a 25 percent chance of Bill's tropical storm force winds reaching the extreme southeast of the New England coast in the United States.
It said large swells generated by the hurricane were already hitting Bermuda and are beginning arrive along the U.S. East Coast. "These swells will spread northward over the weekend ... causing extremely dangerous surf and life-threatening rip currents," the center said. Continued...
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