"MANZANILLO, Cuba -- Hurricane Sandy made landfall Thursday just west of Santiago de Cuba in southern 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."
"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 is expected to remain a hurricane as it moves 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. Officials said there was no threat to the 166 prisoners."
The Associated Press had the story October 25, 2012.
SEE ALSO:
"Halloween Scare? Hurricane Sandy Shows Similarities To 'Perfect Storm.' (+Video)" (Christian Science Monitor)
"Hurricane Sandy 2012 Puts Florida On Tropical Storm Watch" (OurAmazingPlanet)
"Hurricane Sandy Slams Into Cuba As Category 2 Storm" (AP)
"Hybrid of Sandy, Winter Storm Eyes East Coast" (NBC News)
"Mega-Storm Threat Growing for Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Early Next Week From Hurricane Sandy" (Capital Weather Gang/Wash Post)
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