Hurricane Jeanne swept into the Washington

The remnants of &to= english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/14295_Haiti.html ' target=_blank>Hurricane Jeanne veered northward into Virginia on Tuesday after pelting Georgia and the Carolinas with heavy rains and leaving thousands in these states without electricity. Jeanne, which cut a swath of destruction through Florida last weekend, swept into Georgia and the Carolinas on Monday after being downgraded to a &to= english.pravda.ru/world/2000/10/07/132.html ' target=_blank>tropical depression. It dumped as much as 12 inches of rain in some parts of the states. The weakened weather system caused one death and a handful of minor injuries in South Carolina, according to John Legare, a spokesman for the state's emergency management division. Officials in Georgia and North Carolina reported no deaths. Damage to buildings and power lines in these states paled in comparison to that seen in Florida, where thousands of homes were damaged and some 5 million people left without electricity. The fourth hurricane to strike Florida in the past six weeks, Jeanne was blamed for at least six deaths in the state after causing floods in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in which at least 2,430 people died, most of them in Haiti, informs Reuters. According to the Washington Post, the remnants of Hurricane Jeanne swept into the Washington, D.C., area today, bringing heavy rains, flash flood warnings and &to= english.pravda.ru/world/2001/02/26/2714.html ' target=_blank>widespread tornado watches affecting the District, Virginia and Maryland. At least one death was reported in the state: that of a southwestern Virginia woman whose mobile home was hit by a flash flood. By 5 p.m., the remnants of Jeanne were centered about 10 miles west of Washington, D.C. The system was producing maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and moving northeast about 29 mph, the weather service reported. It said isolated tornadoes were possible this evening over parts of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Watches for floods and flash floods extended up the Eastern Seaboard from Virginia to Massachusetts. As the system, now a tropical depression, pushed into the Washington area from the south, the National Weather Service declared tornado watches this afternoon for the capital and surrounding jurisdictions until 9 p.m. Emergency management officials in Loudoun County reported that many roads were flooded and that Route 50 was closed between Aldie and Middleburg. In the town of Purcellville, part of Main Street was closed by the flooding. The weather service predicted an additional one to two inches of rainfall in the area before early evening, when the rain was expected to taper off. The Loudoun County sheriff's office warned motorists not to drive through standing water on a roadway during &to= english.pravda.ru/world/2002/07/06/31942.html ' target=_blank>flash flood conditions. Loudoun canceled all after-school activities because of the potential for flooding, as did neighboring Fauquier County. Among the places affected by the tornado watches were the Virginia counties of Arlington, Fairfax and Prince William and the cities of Alexandria, Falls Church and Manassas. In Maryland, tornado watches were also in effect until 9 p.m. for Montgomery and Prince George's counties, the city of Baltimore and a number of other jurisdictions across the state.

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