Authorities habaneras They announced different effects and damage caused by the rains that have been hitting the capital in recent hours.
According to Orestes Llanes Mestre, coordinator of the local government, until 6:00 pm on Friday, 61 landslides had been reported, 60 of them partial and one total that affected nine families. It has had to mourn the death of two people as a result of a collapse and an accident.
The municipalities most affected by the landslides are Centro Habana, Diez de Octubre and Old Havana.
The Director of Networks of the Electric Company, Eliazar Moreno, highlighted that at 5:00 pm there were 75,300 consumers affected, and 144 groups working to restore service. “In Havana we had breakdowns and in the last few minutes there are 14,000 consumers affected,” he said.
The director of the Institute of Meteorology, Celso Pazos Alberdi, stressed that there are accumulations, especially in the west, very important in the last 30 hours and that it had rained very intensely in Havana and Mayabeque. “In 48 or 72 hours we can have accumulations greater than 200, and in some places even greater than 350mm.”
“In the south of Cuba there is cloudiness and as long as there is, it can still cross over Cuba and give us rain tonight and tomorrow morning.”
Starting this Saturday afternoon, the possibility of rain will gradually decrease, he pointed out. “When this system rises and reaches the Atlantic, it will become an extratropical cyclone that has fronts or troughs. One of those can come to Cuba and from Sunday to Monday it will rain again, which is not as intense as today.”
