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Hurricane Sandy made landfall Thursday in southern Cuba, just west of Santiago de Cuba, where residents boarded over windows and cleared drainage gutters ahead of the strengthening storm that had roared across Jamaica and left two dead in the Caribbean.
As of 5 a.m. ET, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Sandy, which had strengthened to a category 2 hurricane, was located over southeastern Cuba and moving north at 18 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph and was expected to remain a hurricane as it moved through the Bahamas.
The 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was expected to pass to the west of the U.S. naval base at Cuba s Guantanamo Bay, where pretrial hearings were being held for a suspect in the deadly 2000 attack on the destroyer USS Cole off Yemen. The military warned the 5,500 people living on the U.S. base to be ready for the storm. tours washington dc Officials said there was no threat to the 166 prisoners.
The hurricane center said that Sandy would leave Cuba Thursday morning and would pass over the Bahamas later in the day. It  might bring tropical storm conditions along the southeastern Florida coast, the Upper Keys and Florida Bay by Friday morning. Early Thursday, the tropical storm warning was extended northward as far as Flagler Beach and a tropical storm watch was issued for the northeastern Florida coast.
Cuba s Communist government, known for its quick response to natural disasters, announced the evacuation of about 450 tourists from beach resorts near Santiago, according to Cuban state media, though hotel workers told The Associated Press they were not expecting any major problems.
As Sandy crossed over Jamaica on Wednesday, an elderly man was killed by a boulder that crashed into his clapboard house, police said. In southwestern Haiti, a woman died in the town of Camp Perrin after she was swept away by a river she was trying to cross, said Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, head of the country s civil protection office.
Jamaican authorities closed the island s international airports and police ordered 48-hour curfews in major towns to keep people off the streets and deter looting. tours washington dc Cruise ships changed their itineraries to avoid the storm, which made landfall Wednesday afternoon near the capital, Kingston.
In some southern towns on Jamaica, several crocodiles tours washington dc were caught in rushing floodwaters that carried them out of their homes in mangrove thickets. One big croc took up temporary residence in a family s front yard in the city of Portmore.
Stranded business travelers and a smattering of locals rode out the Category 1 hurricane in hotels clustered along a strip in Kingston s financial district. Some read prayer books or novels, while others watched tours washington dc movies tours washington dc or communicated with loved ones on computers.
About a mile away, in the rough neighborhood of Grants Pen, where shops have been ransacked in the past during tours washington dc storms, a number of young men ignored the curfew, riding on bicycles or walking in small groups in the steady rain.
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