From yesterday to today hurricane Paula, which was a category 2, turned into a tropical storm while moving along Cuba's northwestern coast. Paula had maximum sustained winds of 60mph and its core was about 40miles southwest of Havana, the U.S National Hurricane Center reported. The storm was moving east at about 9mph continuing along Cuba's northern coast. So far there has not been any reports of significant damage but authorities are watching the southern and northern coast closely due to heavy waves may cause flooding. As time passes it is likely that the storm will continue to lose its strength. The rainfall and wind is also weaker than excepted which gives the authorities hope that there won't be any server damage. Cuba has a weak economy due to the three hurricanes that hit in 2008 and many are still hitting from those hurricanes. Many tobacco farmers were ready to start planting for next seasons, but this storm set them back.
Since Cuba does not have a strong economy they're lucky that this hurricane weakened. They are also lucky that this Storm is approaching now instead of after the tobacco fields are planted because, even though this storm weakened, it still can do damage. Now was evacuated but people were prepared for the worse but boarding up their doors and windors and having this outside tied down and out away.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101014/ap_on_bi_ge/tropical_weather
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