Huge waves 🌊🌊🌊 slam into Puerto Rico, force evacuations
By Danica Coto | AP
March 5 at 11:09 AM
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico —
Waves nearly 30 feet (9 meters) high from a U.S. winter storm slammed into Puerto Rico on Monday, forcing authorities to evacuate dozens of families and close roads and schools across the U.S. territory.
Huge waves downed palm trees, knocked over cement benches and forced curious crowds to flee as saltwater flooded streets and homes along Puerto Rico’s northern and western coasts. More than a dozen streets remained closed, along with several beaches and two dozen schools in low-lying areas, a move that affected more than 6,000 students.
The swell is the largest to hit Puerto Rico in more than a decade, and it is generating waves bigger than those produced by Hurricane Maria when it hit nearly six months ago as a Category 4 storm, said Gabriel Lojero, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Juan.
Full article:https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/huge-waves-slam-into-puerto-rico-force-evacuations/2018/03/05/574c12a6-208a-11e8-946c-9420060cb7bd_story.htmlAgelbert NOTE: These waves are from the very same storm that slammed the East coast and caused a contanership to lose 70 containers from huge waves. This is the beginning of the Global Warming caused giant ocean wave activity predicted by Hansen
et al.
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