Injuries are expected despite Hurricane Erin’s downgrade to Category 3 Storm

Hurricane Erin remains a threat to life even though he is no longer a storm in category 5.

Early morning on Sunday, August 17, National Hurricane Center Hurricane Erin downed when the wind speeds were eased Reutants and Npr. The tropical storm is still expected to bring bad weather conditions to several places.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in an updated Report The heavy rainfall will continue throughout Puerto Rico, while decreasing over the Virgin Islands today. This will pose a risk of flash floods and landslides or clay.

The Turks and the Caicos Islands are also likely to suffer before the tropical storm moves through the Bahamas from Sunday evening to Tuesday, August 19.

“Erin is expected to produce life-threatening surf and rip streams along the beaches of the Bahamas, much of the US, Bermuda and the Atlantic over the next few days,” according to the report.

The rapid intensification of the storm makes it “one of the fastest reinforcing Atlantic Hurricanes on record, and potentially the fastest intensification rate for any storm earlier than September 1,” CNN reported.

The level of intensification usually occurs in September and October, according to the outlet. Fast intensification is when a hurricane gets at least 35 km / h long -lasting wind in 24 hours, per Noaa.

Erin began as a tropical storm that swept through the Cape Verde Islands on Tuesday, August 12. The heavy rainfall and flood “overwhelmed rescue services and cut key roads” on the island outside West Africa, resulting in nine deaths and 1500 displaced, Reutants reported.

National Hurricane Center warned that the storm was expected to strengthen when passing hot Caribbean waters, according to Npr.

By Friday, August 15, the storm had been strengthened to a hurricane.

This storm comes almost eight years after Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico ravaged as a category 4 storm, killed more than 3,000 people and caused an estimated $ 90 billion in damages.

Maria struck on September 20, 2017 and quickly became the first hurricane of her strength to hit the island since 1932. Flows and violent winds ravaged the electric network and sent thousands who fled the mainland.

Months later companies struggled to recoverAnd the residents had difficulty getting basic necessities. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was strongly criticized after failure resulted in only half of the island that could have access to clean drinking water, including essentials.

Ramón A. Paez Marte, from Carasóvanas, told NBC News In 2018, at least seven people he knew died in the hurricane’s aftermath, including a man in the 30s, who had saved stranded older residents.

“He didn’t even last a month,” Paez Marte said of the young man. “He had a wound and when he pigeon in the flood water and tried to help people, I guess it got a really bad infection and they couldn’t cure it.”

According to results from New York TimesThe More than one million people requested help from the agency – and 58 percent were denied.

“We all have some kind of (post -traumatic stress disorder). It’s a trauma,” said San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto ABC News 2018. “It’s not a shock, it’s a trauma.”

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In February 2018, the Senate reached a two -year budget agreement that awarded Puerto Rico almost $ 16 billion in support. However, the number falls below the $ 94.4 billion as officials said they needed to rebuild the island and prevent future devastation, per New York Times.

Years later, 2022, Hurricanefiona Also made landfalls in Puerto Rico and gave “disastrous and life -threatening floods” as the slow category 1 storm dumped the Gallon water on the island.