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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Deadly Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba, blowing homes to rubble and sending waves crashing over apartment buildings. Some 900,000 Cubans evacuated. Ike, which raked the Bahamas and worsened floods in Haiti, has killed 321 people. There were no immediate reports of deaths in Cuba, despite storm-whipped waves that crashed into five-storey apartment buildings, hurling heavy spray over their rooftops, and winds that uprooted trees and toppled utility poles. Sporadic reports from six of the eight eastern provinces affected indicated that at least 900,000 people had evacuated, and former President Fidel Castro released a statement calling on Cubans to heed security measures to ensure no one dies. Cuba historically has successfully carried off massive evacuations before hurricanes, sparing countless lives. |
