Cuba Suffers A Complete Power Outage After Hurricane Ian

At least two people died in the cyclone, which tore through western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane on Tuesday en route to Florida, authorities said. Buildings and infrastructure in the western province of Pinar del Rio, where Ian made landfall early in the morning, were heavily damaged. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the region experienced “significant wind and storm surge impacts,” with top winds of 125 mph. Ian Forecast: Category 4 landfall expected along Florida’s west coast Wednesday Authorities initially reported 1 million people without power. Later Tuesday, they said the entire island of 11 million was out. “SEN has an exceptional situation, 0 electricity generation (the country without electricity service), related to the complex weather system,” the Ministry of Energy and Mines tweeted at 8:42 p.m., using the Spanish acronym for the national electricity grid. The Electrical Union of Cuba said crews would work through the night to restore power. Failures occurred on the west, center and east links. “It’s a process that will take a while,” union chief Lazaro Guerra Hernandez told state television. Yamilé Ramos Cordero, president of the Provincial Defense Council of Pinar del Río, confirmed at least two deaths from the collapse of buildings. A woman in the Pinar del Río municipality of San Luis was killed when a wall fell on her home, he said. A man in a different municipality died when a roof collapsed. Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel visited Pinar del Río after the storm passed. “Damage is extensive, although not yet recorded,” he tweeted. “Help is already pouring in from across the country.” We were in #PinarDelRío. The damage is great, although it has not yet been possible to account for it. Aid is already pouring in from across the country. We trust the people of Pinar del Río, a noble, hard-working people with a lot of experience in these situations. Rest assured that we will recover. pic.twitter.com/zg5VNKA9sN — Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) September 27, 2022 Eleazar Moreno Ricardo, network director of the electrical union, told the Communist Party’s Granma newspaper that brigades from across the island have begun moving to the western provinces to begin restoring electricity as soon as the weather permits. “The work of assessing the damage has already begun and in some areas of Isla de la Juventud, the first area to feel the force of the typhoon, it was already possible to restore electrical service,” Granma reported shortly after 9 p.m. . Isla de la Juventud – the island of youth – is about 30 miles off the Cuban mainland. “The most complicated situation is in Pinar del Río, where all the transmission networks are out of order and there is a lot of damage to transformers and secondary networks,” Granma said. Cuba approves same-sex marriage in historic move CNN’s Havana bureau chief Patrick Oppman tweeted a video of himself driving down the Malecón, Havana’s famous waterfront boulevard, which is now flooded. Some lights were visible in the distance. Before Ian made landfall, officials in Pinar del Rio set up 55 shelters, evacuated 50,000 people and took measures to protect crops in the country’s main tobacco-producing region. In Cuba, the desperate search for a glass of milk Cuba has long experience preparing for hurricanes, but it also suffers from food and electricity shortages. The economy has been hit partly by the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic and partly by new US sanctions imposed by the Trump administration and partially maintained by the Biden administration.

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At least two people died in the cyclone, which tore through western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane on Tuesday en route to Florida, authorities said. Buildings and infrastructure in the western province of Pinar del Rio, where Ian made landfall early in the morning, were heavily damaged. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the region experienced “significant wind and storm surge impacts,” with top winds of 125 mph. Ian Forecast: Category 4 landfall expected along Florida’s west coast Wednesday Authorities initially reported 1 million people without power. Later Tuesday, they said the entire island of 11 million was out. “SEN has an exceptional situation, 0 electricity generation (the country without electricity service), related to the complex weather system,” the Ministry of Energy and Mines tweeted at 8:42 p.m., using the Spanish acronym for the national electricity grid. The Electrical Union of Cuba said crews would work through the night to restore power. Failures occurred on the west, center and east links. “It’s a process that will take a while,” union chief Lazaro Guerra Hernandez told state television. Yamilé Ramos Cordero, president of the Provincial Defense Council of Pinar del Río, confirmed at least two deaths from the collapse of buildings. A woman in the Pinar del Río municipality of San Luis was killed when a wall fell on her home, he said. A man in a different municipality died when a roof collapsed. Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel visited Pinar del Río after the storm passed. “Damage is extensive, although not yet recorded,” he tweeted. “Help is already pouring in from across the country.” We were in #PinarDelRío. The damage is great, although it has not yet been possible to account for it. Aid is already pouring in from across the country. We trust the people of Pinar del Río, a noble, hard-working people with a lot of experience in these situations. Rest assured that we will recover. pic.twitter.com/zg5VNKA9sN — Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) September 27, 2022 Eleazar Moreno Ricardo, network director of the electrical union, told the Communist Party’s Granma newspaper that brigades from across the island have begun moving to the western provinces to begin restoring electricity as soon as the weather permits. “The work of assessing the damage has already begun and in some areas of Isla de la Juventud, the first area to feel the force of the typhoon, it was already possible to restore electrical service,” Granma reported shortly after 9 p.m. . Isla de la Juventud – the island of youth – is about 30 miles off the Cuban mainland. “The most complicated situation is in Pinar del Río, where all the transmission networks are out of order and there is a lot of damage to transformers and secondary networks,” Granma said. Cuba approves same-sex marriage in historic move CNN’s Havana bureau chief Patrick Oppman tweeted a video of himself driving down the Malecón, Havana’s famous waterfront boulevard, which is now flooded. Some lights were visible in the distance. Before Ian made landfall, officials in Pinar del Rio set up 55 shelters, evacuated 50,000 people and took measures to protect crops in the country’s main tobacco-producing region. In Cuba, the desperate search for a glass of milk Cuba has long experience preparing for hurricanes, but it also suffers from food and electricity shortages. The economy has been hit partly by the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic and partly by new US sanctions imposed by the Trump administration and partially maintained by the Biden administration.