Hurricane Ian just swept past Pinar Del Rio

[ha_banos]

While we're talking disasters this just happened. No idea of impact to people or crops etc.

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[ha_banos]

Some reports and photos from FB from the Robaina farm and Hector Luis coming in that the damage is extensive. People are OK. The farms are not!


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[Drewster]

Oh no that's a horrible sight

[Simon Bolivar]

So here's a story maybe you haven't all heard before. Castro had a concrete house built for Alejandro Robaina, to protect him during hurricanes but he refused to live in it. He famously told Castro, I was born in my house & I'll die in it. So his son lived in it. I visited the finca & saw both (if you look back at my Cuba blog, you'll find photos.

No insurance for the Cuban people, if will be devastating for them. Only luck I suppose is it didn't effect the whole country but given their current level of poverty & desperation, this will only compound their issues.

Cigar supplies? Sure this won't help current supplies to Europe but our problems are insignificant so lets not dwell on that right now.

[ha_banos]

So here's a story maybe you haven't all heard before. Castro had a concrete house built for Alejandro Robaina, to protect him during hurricanes but he refused to live in it. He famously told Castro, I was born in my house & I'll die in it. So his son lived in it. I visited the finca & saw both (if you look back at my Cuba blog, you'll find photos.

No insurance for the Cuban people, if will be devastating for them. Only luck I suppose is it didn't effect the whole country but given their current level of poverty & desperation, this will only compound their issues.

Cigar supplies? Sure this won't help current supplies to Europe but our problems are insignificant so lets not dwell on that right now.

It has affected the whole country. Their main power grid is down. I read only local generators are producing power.

https://news.sky.com/story/hurricane-ian-leaves-11-million-in-cuba-without-electricity-as-it-heads-towards-florida-12706700

"Hurricane Ian has knocked out power across all of Cuba, leaving 11 million people without electricity, after it slammed into the island's western tip.

Cuba's Electric Union said power was initially knocked out for about one million people in the country's western provinces, but later the entire grid collapsed."

[ha_banos]

Another damage report. Some figures for scale.

https://havanatimes.org/news/cubas-cigar-industry-took-a-huge-hit-from-hurricane-ian/