Mauricio, the maximum alert meeting per dangerous cyclone

The Islands of the Indian Ocean of Mauricio and the meeting were on a maximum alert on Thursday for an intense tropical storm, Cyclone Garance, described a “direct threat” for tourist destinations.

Mauricio closed his main airport on Wednesday, while the close French island of the meeting was scheduled to do the same on Thursday.

Garance was categorized as a class 3 cyclone by Mauricio, the second highest alert level, with gusts of up to 70 kilometers (43 miles) for the expected time.

Mauricio’s weather service said the cyclone was 310 kilometers northwest of the island and had become an “intense tropical storm.”

The cyclone “hazardously approaches Mauricio and constitutes a direct threat,” he said, adding that floods were expected.

Garance was heading east, but the south has been curved to pass between Mauricio and the meeting, whose government representative said a “red alert” and the closed airport would be declared on Thursday.

In his current career, the Cyclone was expected to pass less than 50 kilometers from the Los Angeles meeting between Thursday night and Friday morning, the prefecture said in a statement.

The Meteo-France weather service warned that there could still be a “direct impact” on the meeting. Previously he warned about bursts of more than 150 km / h at the highest points of the island, accompanied by heavy rains and agitated seas.

There were heavy clouds on the meeting at dawn on Thursday, but there are no significant rains.

Around noon, the cyclone was still 300 kilometers away.

– Stocking Up on Essentials –

The red alert will be activated at 7.00 pm, the authorities announced, and the cyclone is expected to reach its closest point to the island early.

A red alert measure requires that the population remain inside and only emergency services can move around the island. Schools closed since Wednesday afternoon.

Thousands of people in Los Angeles buy basic products before the expected blockade, forming long tails of payment in stores.

“I thought I had a lot of time to make my purchases, but I was wrong,” said a buyer, Franck Vitry, supplying bottled water in a supermarket in the port, on the west of the island.

“It took me 30 seconds to grab the water, and I have been waiting in the row to pay 10 minutes,” he sighed.

Others loaded candles, batteries and canned foods in overflowing cords.