Jeanne weakened because it relocated across central Florida, learning to be a tropical storm during the afternoon regarding the 26th near Tampa, then weakening up to a despair each and every day later over main Georgia. The depression had been nevertheless associated with hefty rainfall whenever it relocated throughout the Carolinas, Virginia, therefore the Delmarva Peninsula regarding the 29th and 28th before becoming extratropical.
Jeanne produced rain that is extreme in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, with almost 24 ins reported in Vieques. Rains through the cyclone led to historic floods in Puerto Rico, and flash-floods that are deadly mudslides in Haiti, where over 3000 individuals destroyed their everyday lives and approximately 200,000 had been kept homeless. Three fatalities took place Florida, and another each in Puerto Rico, sc, and Virginia. In the usa, damage is projected become near $6.9 billion.
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