Hurricane Tammy pulls away from Caribbean islands after making landfall on Barbuda with high winds, heavy rain

Hurricane Tammy pulls away from Caribbean islands after making landfall on Barbuda with high winds, heavy rain

Tammy came ashore on the island of Barbuda around 10:15 p.m. EDT Saturday with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, making Tammy a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. But Tammy is now pulling away from the islands as it heads north-northwest into the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.