Cuba’s electricity grid has collapsed, leaving the entire country without power in the wake of Hurricane Ian, as residents inThe western end ofwas hit by violent winds and flooding on Tuesday, affecting infrastructure, state-run media reported, while some of the country’s most important tobacco farms were devastated.
The island’s decades-old electrical grid has been faltering for months, with blackouts common, but officials said the storm had proven too much, provoking a failure that shut off the lights for its 11.3 million people. Earlier, the hurricane tore through the west of the country on Tuesday morning, making landfall in Pinar del Río province, where officials set up 55 shelters, evacuated 50,000 people and took steps to protect crops in the nation’s main tobacco-growing region. The storm left at least two dead in western Cuba, state-run media reported.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Ana Julia Gomez, a 56-year-old woman, as she surveyed the wreckage in her home. “I lost everything – nothing is left.”The hurricane hit Cuba at a time of dire economic crisis. Blackouts and long-running shortages of food, medicine and fuel are likely to complicate efforts to recover from the storm. “Ian has done away with what little we had left,” said Omar Avila, a worker at butcher shop in Pinar del Río. “It’s a horrible disaster.
..As residents in Florida braced for the arrival of what is expected to be a catastrophic Category 4 storm.
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