http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow News You Should Know Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:53:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/tropical-storm-erika-is-downgraded/ http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/tropical-storm-erika-is-downgraded/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:33:28 +0000 ewiley http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/?p=9464 Tropical Storm Erika was downgraded Thursday to a tropical depression not far from Puerto Rico, the BBC reports. Poor communities living by the river in Haiti and the Dominican Republic are still at risk, though, of flooding. In Dominica there was some reported flooding and the government decided to close schools and businesses because of Erika. There were not any reports of major damage on the island, the news service reports.

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