
{"id":46115,"date":"2015-04-30T21:18:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T01:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=46115"},"modified":"2015-05-01T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T17:27:12","slug":"heavy-rains-leave-a-wake-of-destruction-in-havana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/heavy-rains-leave-a-wake-of-destruction-in-havana\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rains Leave a Wake of Destruction in Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain hit Havana on Wednesday, causing substantial material damage and leaving at least three people dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to official reports, 24 homes partially collapsed, while other three collapsed completely.<\/p>\n<p>The most affected areas were the northern municipalities of Centro Habana, Cerro, Old Havana, Plaza and Playa.<\/p>\n<p>So far local authorities have reported that more than 400 state-owned buildings were affected, including schools, warehouses, bus stations and bakeries.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1.400 houses flooded, over 200 water reservoirs were contaminated, and almost 40 electrical networks went out of service as well.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the main streets had to be closed, including the underpasses in the Fifth Avenue and Linea Street. Many of the buses that were circulating during the storm broke down.<\/p>\n<p>The official press reported two casualties: Julio Andino Arzonales, 23, from Old Havana, who was electrocuted by a fallen cable; and 79-year-old Marta Damiana Acanda, who drowned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Victims<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At 100 Florida Street, in the municipality of Centro Habana, an adjoining building collapsed and crushed the house where Ernestina Ulacia had lived for 47 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in the house when it happened, my two daughters (15 and 24), my mother and I,\u201d Ernestina\u2019s daughter told OnCuba, \u201cMy mother, who is 71 years old, is hospitalized now. She was in the kitchen when the roof fell on our heads. She\u2019s waiting surgery for her broken hip. Her two legs are also broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The neighbours were helping them to collect what was left of their things: some clothe, dishes, silverware and a coffee maker.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46232\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/derrumbe-31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46232 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/derrumbe-31.jpg\" alt=\"derrumbe-3\" width=\"755\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/derrumbe-31.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/derrumbe-31-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/derrumbe-31-750x487.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernestina Ulacia&#8217;s daughter. Photo by Roberto Ruiz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTwo government officials came by yesterday,\u201d she said, \u201cbut no one else has come. I\u2019m wearing clothes people lent to me. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody died over there,\u201d a man said, pointing in the direction of Anibal Cabrera Fernandez\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>Anibal Cabrera Fernandez\u2019s sister and mother-in-law were at the Marco Abreu Funeral Home in Zanja Street, waiting for the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office to release the body. Anibal, 42, a cycle rickshaw driver, drowned near the Cuatro Caminos market in the storm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46121\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok171.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46121 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok171-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"ok17\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Lay Noa Fern\u00e1ndez and Zoila Fernandez, sister and mother-in-law of An\u00edbal Fern\u00e1ndez, at the funeral home. \/ Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t driving the rickshaw when it happened,\u201d said his sister. \u201cApparently he was on his way home and the rain took him by surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The damages caused by the rain in the poor neighborhood of Jesus Maria have no parallel in Havana.<\/p>\n<p>Alberto Betancourt Perez was the one who took Marta Acanda\u2019s lifeless body out of her house and took her to the closest polyclinic. She is one of the two dead people reported by official sources.<\/p>\n<p>Marta was 79. Her husband of 60 years, Patricio Armas Barreto is 81. On April 29, he was informed at midnight that his wife had died. He was outside Havana, in Guane, Pinar del Rio, Cuba\u2019s westernmost province. He took a bus and was able to get to Havana at 2.45 a.m. Alberto and four other men had already rescued his wife\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46130\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok81.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46130 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok81.jpg\" alt=\"ok8\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok81.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok81-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok81-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alberto Betancourt Perez helped to take the body of Marta Damiana Acanda out of the house. \/ Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alberto Betancourt also helped the people to build floating platforms when they saw that the rain was far from stopping, and the water level was over two meters. The kids were the first to be put in the makeshift rafts; other families took their children to houses in the upper floors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46125\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46125 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok13-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"ok13\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricio Armas Barreto, husband of Marta Damiana Acanda \/ Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the outer walls of these houses, one can see the mark left by previous floods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all feel abandoned here,\u201d said Alberto. \u201cThere\u2019s no one here to help. You&#8217;ll never understand it; you have to be here to understand how it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The families that live in Gloria Street, between Rastro and Carmen streets, called the Fire Department and the Navy\u2019s Rescue Unit. The latter told them that there was nothing they could do. No one came to help them on April 29.<\/p>\n<p>Deisy Leon and her daughter, who live at 259 Rastro Street, did not lose their house, but they do not know what they are going to do to eat. Their rice, beans and other food supplies are ruined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese drains are all clogged. No one&#8217;s done nothing to fix that. We\u2019re tired of this. We know we could have died like that lady, and nothing would have happened,\u201d said Deysi Leon, while she took out the dirty water that accumulated in her kitchen and living room.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, the situation was still alarming. At 11:00 a.m., nobody had come to unclog the drains yet. The sky was getting cloudy and the people were fearing that the worst could happen if it rained again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46237\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok142.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46237 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok142.jpg\" alt=\"ok14\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok142.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok142-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok142-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46137\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok18.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46137 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok18.jpg\" alt=\"ok\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok18.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok18-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok18-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46135\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46135 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok31.jpg\" alt=\"ok3\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok31.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok31-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok31-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46134\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok41.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46134 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok41.jpg\" alt=\"ok4\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok41.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok41-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok41-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46132\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok61.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46132 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok61.jpg\" alt=\"ok6\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok61.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok61-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok61-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46128\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46128 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok101.jpg\" alt=\"ok10\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok101.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok101-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok101-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46129\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok91.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46129 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok91.jpg\" alt=\"ok9\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok91.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok91-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok91-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46127\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok111.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46127 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok111.jpg\" alt=\"ok11\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok111.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok111-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ok111-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain hit Havana on Wednesday, causing substantial material damage and leaving at least three people dead. According to official reports, 24 homes partially collapsed, while other three collapsed completely. The most affected areas were the northern municipalities of Centro Habana, Cerro, Old Havana, Plaza and Playa. So far local authorities have reported that more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2960,"featured_media":46118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[13930],"tags":[927],"ppma_author":[33701,7415],"class_list":["post-46115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technologies-of-communication-and-media","tag-rains"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heavy Rains Leave a Wake of Destruction in Havana | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/heavy-rains-leave-a-wake-of-destruction-in-havana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heavy Rains Leave a Wake of Destruction in Havana | OnCubaNews English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Heavy rain hit Havana on Wednesday, causing substantial material damage and leaving at least three people dead. 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