Tropical Storm Isaac has lashed Haiti with driving rain and gale-force winds as it bore down on the impoverished Caribbean nation still reeling from the effects of a devastating 2010 earthquake that killed more than 250,000 people.
Lashing rains and high winds were reported along parts of Haiti's southern coast and in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Saturday. More than 350,000 survivors of the last earthquake are still living in fragile tent and tarpaulin camps near the capital.
Intermittent power outages affected the greater Port-au-Prince area as Isaac bore down on the impoverished Caribbean country.
The storm had sustained winds of 110 kmh and its centre was expected to pass over Haiti's southern coast.
Life-threatening flash-floods and mudslides, which are common in Haiti, could add to the misery of the displaced Haitians.
The storm was forecasted to "move near or over southeastern Cuba on Saturday, move near or over central Cuba on Saturday night and approach the Florida keys on Sunday", the US-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its 21:00 GMT bulletin on Friday.
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