MADRID, Spain.- The strong winds, with gusts of over 80 kilometers per hour, associated with Hurricane Ian caused large floods due to penetrations of the sea in the popular council of Surgidero de Batabanó, in the province of Mayabeque.
Images shared by users in social networks and official media allow us to appreciate that in some areas the water penetrated the houses more than a meter high and people tried to evacuate or put their belongings to safety with the water up to their waists. The streets are still flooded.
In the photos, rescuers are seen helping elderly people to leave the town in the middle of the flood.
“Look Díaz-Canel, while yours are out on the luxury yachts, they are being taken out of the streets in the small boats where the same neighbors, risking their lives, help them,” he wrote in Facebook Elizabeth Fernandez.
Hurricane Ian made landfall in Cuba as a category 3 this Tuesday morning through the town of La Coloma, in the main municipality of Pinar del Río, and left the country around 10 in the morning through Puerto Esperanza, north of the Province.
After the passage of the hurricane, two people died in Pinar del Río due to collapses of their homes, according to a note from the state agency Latin Press.
In statements about the preliminary damage caused by Ian to the island, the Cuban government indicated that the houses, the fields, the tobacco crops and the roads suffered the main damages. As well as the National Electric System and telephone lines.
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