Costa Rica Girds for Hurricane
The government declared a state of emergency today and began evacuating coastal residents as Hurricane Joan spun toward Central America after leaving a trail of devastation in Colombia.
Manuel Obando, president of Costa Rica’s National Emergency Committee, predicted that the brunt of the killer storm will hit Costa Rica late today. The government evacuated homeless elderly people and children and 86 hospital patients from Puerto Limon, an Atlantic coast port city of 8,000 people 105 miles southeast of San Jose, Obando said.
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