Sandy Damaged over 150,000 Homes in Cuba

Sandy Damaged over 150,000 Homes in Cuba
October 28, 2012

Repairs in Holguin from the devastating 2008 Hurricane Ike were still
continuing when Hurricane Sandy struck last Thursday.

HAVANA TIMES — While the magnitude of the damage from Hurricane Sandy is
still being compiled preliminary government reports show widespread
devastation in Santiago de Cuba and Holguin.

In Santiago, where Sandy entered Cuba from the south, the local
authorities reported on Saturday that 132,733 homes, apartments and
other buildings were damaged, of those 15,322 were considered totally
destroyed. Over 43,000 of the homes lost part or all of the roofs.

In Holguin, the province from where Sandy left Cuba in route to The
Bahamas and the USA, an estimated 17,000 homes were damaged, 1,800
totally destroyed and 3,000 without roofs.

There were also many homes damaged in Guantanamo province.

Electric service is still out in many parts of the affected region and
hundreds of electric workers from other parts of the country have joined
in the effort to restore energy as quickly as possible.

Over a thousand four hundred schools and nearly four hundred health
facilities were damaged by the storm's 105 mph winds, reported
government authorities.

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