US:Antigua, Caribbean brace for Earl

AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-2010
US:Antigua, Caribbean brace for Earl

Prime Minister BALDWIN SPENCER of the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda is advising
residents to move to higher ground or into shelters .. as Hurricane Earl strengthens to
a Category Two storm and bears down on the islands.

Supermarkets and hardware stores are reporting brisk business as people rush to get
groceries and other storm-related necessities .. and flights have been cancelled.

Earl is forecast to pass just north of Barbuda .. and then head towards the Virgin Islands.

AAP RTV maur/jkl

KEYWORD: EARL (ST JOHN'S)

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