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HAVANA — Hurricane Ian lashed Cuba on Tuesday with heavy rain and winds of up to 125 miles per hour, knocking out power to the entire island and killing two people, according to the authorities.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy said the power grid had collapsed in the wake of the storm, leaving the country in the dark as it tried to recover from heavy flooding and extensive damage. Before the sun set, residents braved wind and rain to search for food and basic supplies, lining up under overhangs to buy a piece of chicken or a bottle of oil.
At least two people were killed, according to local news reports. One was a man in San Juan y Martínez who was electrocuted while trying to disconnect a wind turbine that he used to irrigate his field. The second was a 43-year-old woman who died in San Luis when one of the walls of her house collapsed.
Cuba’s western provinces, where the hurricane made landfall, have been the hardest hit. Videos shared on social media from the town of Coloma, along Cuba’s southern coast, showed people inside their homes with water up to their knees.
The hurricane comes as Cuba continues to recover from one of the worst periods of financial hardship in the country’s history, with the nation’s ailing infrastructure already producing widespread power blackouts. The financial misery, along with ongoing political repression, sparked one of the largest protest movements in decades last year.
The island has long borne the brunt of Atlantic storms. In 2008, two hurricanes, Gustav and Ike, blasted across the country, leaving at least seven people dead, damaging crops and buildings, and setting off more than 150 landslides in Havana.
On Tuesday, flooding in western Cuba damaged houses and tobacco crops, an important agricultural industry. In the municipality of San Luis, north of the city of Santiago de Cuba, one of the largest tobacco growing areas had been decimated.
Thousands of families were evacuated and widespread power outages were reported in the western city of Pinar del Río. Tourists in places like Varadero, a popular beach resort in the country’s north, were relocated to more secure locations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/us/hurricane-ian-cuba.html

Not related in any way.
Stop attributing religion to everything.

lhordspy:
Not related in any way.
Stop attributing religion to everything.

You really think it's a joke. God is obviously not happy. What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah will be a child's play compared to what will befall these evil generations

chymeze:
You really think it's a joke. God is obviously not happy. What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah will be a child's play compared to what will befall these evil generations

Are you Assistant God?

People never learned. I really do not see the kind of satisfaction derived from this gay of a thing if not the diseases they continue to generate for humanity.

But all the countries that have officially ordained such practice are suffering one way or the other yet others are diving neckdeep.

thesicilian:
Are you Assistant God?

I'm bigger than just being God's assistant. I'm his son

chymeze:
You really think it's a joke. God is obviously not happy. What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah will be a child's play compared to what will befall these evil generations

No be today Carribean countries dey experience natural disasters like earthquake, hurricane, tornadoes etc. It happens this time every year. And please stop the Sodom and Gomorrah nonsense. Stop categorizing sin. Gays/lesbians, Adultrers, Fornicators, Masturbators are all sinners before God why should God destory gays and not destroy fornicators, Adultrers and Masturbators too.

Stop dispensing judgement on God's behalf. You are not his vice

psucc:
People never learned. I really do not see the kind of satisfaction derived from this gay of a thing if not the diseases they continue to generate for humanity.

But all the countries that have officially ordained such practice are suffering one way or the other yet others are diving neckdeep.

Every body will carry the weight of his own sin. There is nothing like "countries that have ordained such practice are suffering" Many African countries that did not ordain such what have they achieved. Have they developed or surpassed big economies that have ordained such. Abeg make una dey use una head.

yeye religious people connecting religion to whatever selfish narrow minded agenda they can find, since the beginning of time...

They betrayed Fidel Castro who opposed this despicable practice.
His daughter went to exile for not willing to listing to her father.

panafrican:
They betrayed Fidel Castro who opposed this despicable practice.
His daughter went to exile for not willing to listing to her father.

They're now gradually suffering the consequences of adopting the American depraved culture

MrBrownJay1:
yeye religious people connecting religion to whatever selfish narrow minded agenda they can find, since the beginning of time...

Foolish people, that's why most of them live in backward countries, Nigeria is experiencing floods does it mean they offended God too?

sanpipita:
Foolish people, that's why most of them live in backward countries, Nigeria is experiencing floods does it mean they offended God too?

religious people never ever made sense... if there was a god that answered their prayers, then there wouldnt be so many Nigerians/africans living so miserably and/or dying so easily; so many children dying of incurable diseases; so many innocent people dying at the hands of criminals etc while their "holy fraudster in robe" drives a Rolls Royce, lives in a golden mansion and flies private jets.