Scary

Tropical Storm Emily Approaches Haiti

Country still reeling from 2010 earthquake.

Haiti prepared Wednesday night for a potential natural disaster, as Tropical Storm Emily approached its shoreline just 18 months after that country’s devastating earthquake. Some 600,000 people still live in temporary encampments in Haiti, meaning even drenching rain from the tropical storm could be a serious threat. The governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic issued “red alerts,” and tropical-storm warnings were also issued for Guantánamo and Holguín in eastern Cuba, the southeast and central Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos Islands. The storm’s erratic path has made forecasters uncertain whether it will hit south Florida.