Hurricane cross Bahamas after slaughter 5 to Cuba
Hurricane Michelle destroyed at least 2000 houses and damaged another central Cuba in 8000, officials said Tuesday as she began the amount of damage caused by the storm that weekend, five people killed in Germany . Half of Cuba was blacked out for a second night, and millions of people remained without electricity, gas or water. The government has been rebuilding the telecommunication network.
Officials of the civil defence said the first covers the destruction of houses came from the province of Matanzas, which was hardest hit by Sunday’s storm.
“We were rebuilding the house,” said Jose Ramon Pedrozo silent when he tried to save a few wooden planks, once part of his modest house Solis Viejo, a small town in Matanzas. “Now we are at the beginning all closely. ”
The cyclone 12 dead in Honduras, Nicaragua and Jamaica last week, lost some strength as it flows from Cuba and Florida left virtually intact. The authorities ordered the evacuation Florida Keys.
Michelle swept around the capital Nassau, Bahamas, Monday 85 kph with winds, flooding houses and cutting.
In the Bahamas, the hurricane unleashed biting wind and rain sheet on Monday, ripping roofs of several wooden houses and Tearing Down fire.
Government Offices, banks and schools remained closed for a second day Tuesday. Emergency crews working groups were established to restore electricity and telephone services in areas where the hurricane made power lines.
The tour of the radio station FM schnappte More than half were high winds, and several other chains have commissions.
Nassau International Airport remained closed until an inspection of the runway and damage assessment. Some small planes have been dumped on the asphalt.
Before the passage in the Bahamas, the winds outside ouragan’s brushed Florida, where a tropical storm warning was lifted Monday afternoon for the Atlantic coast of the Upper Keys, on West Palm Beach.
In the Cayman Islands, several businesses in the capital, Georgetown, were damaged, including A Waterfront jewelry store that lost some of her jewelry display on Wednesday, police said. Officials were still assessing damage.
In Cuba, the damage to telephone lines and microwave antennas, national television snorted communication service between Havana and in remote areas.
Outgoing international telephone services was restored before dawn Monday morning, but outside the country, calling reported they were unable to cite love of the island.
“I am very worried, because we do not know what they are now,” Isabel Nunez, 55, Elizabeth, NJ, said their relatives in Cuba.
Although power has been demarcated to avoid accidents during the storm, the government said extensive repairs are needed, they can be safe before being restored.
If the storm of the country in case of the south coast of Cuba, its winds were estimated at 130 mph. Michelle caused at least 23 for the collapse of houses in Havana, on the north shore, says public television - and more were expected to crumble when it dried in the sun.
The narrow streets of Solis Viejo and other cities in the central region of Cuba was covered with palm branches and tiles blown buildings. Downed Utility Pole was scattered in parks and front yards.
Officials on 750000 evacuees before the storm. Cuba’s population is 11 million, including 2 million in Havana.
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