First Irma, now Jose. Tourist island braces for next hurricane
Hurricane Jose, a Category Four storm, will bring heavy rains and winds of 130 to 150 kilometres an hour, meteorologists said
Battered and weary after being pummelled by Hurricane Irma, terrified residents Saturday awaited an unprecedented second monster storm bearing down on already devastated Caribbean islands.
“Return to the safest shelters before the hurricane arrives, and avoid areas which could flood,” police in the French part of St Martin pleaded, only three days it was ravaged by Irma.
Jose, a Category Four storm, will bring heavy rains and winds of 130 to 150 kilometres an hour, meteorologists said.
But it may give islanders some relief and veer about 100 kilometres to the North of St Martin and St Barts when it hits later Saturday.
Many on the once paradise island of St Martin divided between France and The Netherlands will be wondering where to go.
Irma left at least 12 dead and hundreds injured across the island, and with the clean-up barely begun, authorities are struggling to get aid to the stricken population.
