NU Online News Service, Nov. 5, 2:10 p.m. EDT
Hurricane Tomas, a Category 1 storm, is expected on Friday tostrike Haiti, a country still recovering from an earthquake earlythis year.
The biggest threat to Haiti will be as much as 15 inches of rainproduced by the hurricane. That amount of rain could produce flashfloods and mudslides, according to the National Hurricane Center,which added that Tomas could raise water levels by as much as threefeet above normal tides along the coast of Haiti and some coastalparts of Cuba.
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