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CORE OF POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE MARIA EXPECTED TO REACH SOUTHEASTERN PUERTO RICO THIS MORNING...

2:00 AM AST Wed Sep 20
Location: 17.6°N 65.1°W
Moving: WNW at 10 mph
Min pressure: 910 mb
Max sustained: 165 mph
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Local Products for Maria
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/index_hls5+shtml/200103.shtml

Severe Weather and Flash Flood Warnings
http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/

the latest Maria forecast track map and satelllite images/loops, with links, and the Maria advisory archive linked, at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=134673117

the latest Puerto Rico radar images/loops (Maria's eye/eye wall now in full view in the short range images/loops), with links, at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=134726927

[mr40]

Hurricane Maria knocks out electricity to the entire island of Puerto Rico

The island of Puerto Rico is completely without electricity, a spokesman for the governor's office said Wednesday. "We are 100% without power," the spokesman said.

Hurricane Maria kept thrashing Puerto Rico on Wednesday, ripping trees out of the ground and hammering two-thirds of the island with hurricane-force winds.
"This is total devastation," said Carlos Mercader, a spokesman for Puerto Rico's governor. "Puerto Rico, in terms of the infrastructure, will not be the same. ... This is something of historic proportions."

Maria killed seven people on the Caribbean island nation of Dominica, said Gaston Browne, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Browne said he had been communicating with the Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, who reported "widespread devastation" and whose own house was shredded by the storm.



Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on Wednesday near the city of Yabucoa with winds of 155 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. By 11 a.m., those winds had weakened to 140 mph, but Maria was still a Category 4 hurricane capable of ripping roofs off houses.

Maria was expected to dump at least 12 to 18 inches of rain on the island before barreling toward the Dominican Republic starting Wednesday night, then on to Turks and Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas by Thursday night, the National Hurricane Center predicted.

Holed up in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, Geffrard Dejoie said his hotel already was deluged by midmorning Wednesday.

"We are all sheltered in the hallways, as a few windows in some rooms have broken," said Dejoie, a traveling tennis coach. "We also are located very close to the lagoon, and the water is coming up on the lobby, so we had to move to higher floors."
Puerto Rican Olympic gymnast Tommy Ramos, who's riding out the storm in the northern city of Vega Baja, posted video of gusts blowing debris in front of him.
"The house is steady," Ramos told CNN. "What scares us is the flooding."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/20/americas/hurricane-maria-caribbean-islands/index.html