
{"id":47567,"date":"2015-05-18T19:10:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T23:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=47567"},"modified":"2015-05-21T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T17:47:31","slug":"gone-with-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone With the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"_5yl5\" data-reactid=\".5l.$mid=11432230053789=22525c135186b19ae32.2:0.0.0.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".5l.$mid=11432230053789=22525c135186b19ae32.2:0.0.0.0.0.0\">From this balcony, the boys from the neighborhood would jump head-first into the deep river that Gloria street had turned into this past April 29, after 188 millimeters of rain was recorded at the Havana weather station in Casablanca in the course of four hours.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three people died, parts of and entire buildings collapsed and the authorities reported that over ten thousand people were affected by the sudden downpour in the Cuban capital.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Gloria street is already dry. Children can play out on the street again. The children, still too young to have any sense of the danger or losses, seem to be the only ones who are happy right now.<\/p>\n<p><em>OnCuba<\/em> immediately published the <a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/society\/heavy-rains-leave-a-wake-of-destruction-in-havana\/\">stories of some of the people affected <\/a>by the strong showers that day. We have returned to those places on several occasions to follow these people in their mourning and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after the floods and collapses, we return to find out what\u2019s become of these people and what support they have received after a tragedy which, according to Cuba\u2019s Civil Defense Department, left 1,400 homes flooded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/321.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47571 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/321.jpg\" alt=\"32\" width=\"755\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/321.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/321-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a>***<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, May 7, we met with a sad, unsatisfied and angry Patricio Armas, the 81-year-old widower whose wife, Marta Damiana Acanda, drowned on April 29 on Gloria street, between Rastro and Carmen streets. Two weeks after the death of his wife and the loss of the few household appliances he owned, no social worker or Civil Defense or government official has gone to his home to offer any aid (in addition to the replacement mattress he was given).<\/p>\n<p>Patricio, retired and left with only 143 pesos (around 7 USD) of his pension after paying for his Haier-brand fridge every month, wants financial aid. He wants a new TV where he can \u201cwatch the news,\u201d he says. \u201cIn all of my years of work, I\u2019ve never once asked for any help from the government. If I ask for it now, it\u2019s because I need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to some of the people who live on Gloria street and offered their statements, the streets in the area tend to flood before the forecast announces rain. Olga Garcia, who lives on Esperanza street, tells us that, a few months ago, a work brigade arrived in the neighborhood to dredge the sewer lines. Everyone thought the situation would improve. However, the brigade never finished the job and, rather than improve, the sewers became more heavily clogged with the rubble they left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Olga was one of the many people whose food was spoiled by the incident. \u201cThe water covered the fridge at my home. The chicken I was saving for Mother\u2019s Day was swimming in the freezer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Olga, on April 30, at around half past one in the morning, government officials brought them a bit of rice and mince-meat that was \u201ccold as a stiff.\u201d \u201cFire-fighters and the Red Cross have been to the neighborhood, but, beyond asking about the situation of the locals, they haven\u2019t offered any concrete aid. Nothing is being done. Everything remains the same after almost two weeks: the mattresses, the filling, the furniture drying out under the sun, on the sidewalks, the walls still wet and marked by the rainfall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/821.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47583 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/821.jpg\" alt=\"82\" width=\"755\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/821.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/821-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s response to the situation that arose following the intense rains of April 29 has primarily consisted in selling mattresses to those affected and offering food to those who still do not have the means of cooking.<\/p>\n<p>An individual mattress costs 650 pesos (32.50 USD). The price of kind-sized beds was initially announced at 950 pesos (47.50 USD), but, on arriving at the Craft and Hardware Markets (MAI), where they were being sold people found out their real price was 1,900 pesos (95 USD).<\/p>\n<p>At 3 pm on Friday, May 8, 15 people stood outside the MAI located at the intersection of <em>Monte <\/em>and <em>Angeles<\/em> street, waiting for the store to open. Many of those who\u2019d been waiting there since 6 am to join the long line-ups that have been forming since the sale of mattresses began grew tired of waiting and left, as there was a power-cut in the area and the store didn\u2019t open that day.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Fajardo, who lives on San Felipe street, can buy a mattress at half-price because she is a home keeper. Pensioners also benefit from the discount, and indigents can obtain them for free. Families who do not have the cash to pay for the mattresses can purchase them through the bank, on credit. For many, this becomes a real problem, particularly if they\u2019re also paying for household appliances like television sets and refrigerators.<\/p>\n<p>The most serious issue does not appear to be the price of the mattresses or the slow and rather indolent way in which the damage caused by the floods have been addressed. The greatest problem appears to be pointing in two main directions. The first is the underprivileged and poor nature of those who will barely manage to replace what they lost, of people who weren\u2019t doing well at all even before a single drop of water fell on their homes. The second is the insecurity that prevails in the area, for, if similar rains were to fall, the incident could repeat itself. As we know, Havana\u2019s drainage system is not as efficient as is required.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC_48651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47584 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC_48651.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_4865\" width=\"755\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC_48651.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC_48651-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Havana, the grave housing deficit and the slow recovery plans that tend to follow a disaster turn most of those affected into chronically ill patients. Those who lose their homes can spend the remainder of their lives in State shelters, or, in the best of cases, they may have to wait years before a home is assigned to them.<\/p>\n<p>The cooks at the \u201cTen Cent\u201d Bar located on Suarez street, between Corrales and Monte, refer to those affected by the rains of April 29 as the \u201cnew ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those who aren\u2019t familiar with the establishment, at three in the afternoon on a Thursday, the \u201cTen Cent\u201d bar is a hot, sweaty, foul-smelling place full of alcohol and crude-spoken men, a place of darkness and noise. The neighborhood\u2019s decadence is concentrated there, precisely the place that should be a shelter for those in need of aid.<\/p>\n<p>Juana Alma, who has been working at this State establishment for nearly 10 years, has become used to dealing with the victims of disasters. According to her, some people have been living in State shelters for more than 20 years and still need to eat there, not having their own means of cooking a meal.<\/p>\n<p>From the night of April 29 to lunch-time on May 2, employees at this establishment received over 270 people affected by the rains. The victims of the disaster complained about the poor quality of the food. At 61 <em>Factoria <\/em>street, where nine apartments collapsed on the afternoon of the 29<sup>th<\/sup>, we met with Isabel Gonzalez, who explained to us how they managed to get their food during the first days following the flood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe food they gave us at the \u201cTen Cent\u201d Bar was a bit of yellow rice with spoiled bits of fat and half-boiled potatoes. I\u2019d rather buy a pizza out on the street than eat that,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Yaremis Kindelan, the mother of a five-year-old girl who was watching television when their home collapsed (and miraculously survived) spoke to us one week after the tragedy. \u201cThey haven\u2019t even given the children any milk. And we have pregnant women here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, in the vicinity of Factoria street, a crane was lifting the rubble of what was once the home of Yaremis, Isabel and other tenants. Occasionally, one of them would turn around to watch the crane\u2019s heavy metallic claw scoop up the rubble. At this point, the crane must have already left the area clean. Later, they will likely install two or three wrought-iron benches and a seesaw there, and set up a park.<\/p>\n<p>We came across Jessica, the eldest of 71-year-old Ernestina Ulacia\u2019s granddaughters, sitting on a wooden, leather-backed stool set in front of the remains of 110 Florida St. The home where her mother, grandmother and sister lived collapsed after an old, uninhabited building on Alambique street (a building that has been threatening with collapsing for nearly 45 years) fell on top of it.<\/p>\n<p>Enestina Ulacia was hospitalized the same day the building collapsed. She was trapped beneath the rubble and fractured several bones, including a hip. Her family has temporarily moved to the home of relatives on Puerta Cerrada street. Ernestina underwent an operation and is now awaiting a skin graft for one of her legs.<\/p>\n<p>Some of her belongings are still under the rubble of what was once her home. A neighbor boarded off the remains to prevent these from being \u201cscavenged.\u201d \u201cThey gave us two mattresses and offered to take us to a shelter in <em>Arroyo Naranjo<\/em>, on the outskirts of the city, but considering the condition my grandmother will come out of the hospital in, we can\u2019t move to a shelter,\u201d Jessica tells us.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Luisa Iglesias, 70, is the head of neighborhood watch in the area. \u201cIn cases like this,\u201d she explains, \u201cthe Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) normally works to give the family an uninhabited house in the neighborhood, but neither of the two available have a roof and they are both in very bad shape.\u201d When we went to <em>Florida<\/em> street a second time to ask about Ernestina, she saw us arrive from the door of her house and sent someone to take us there, wanting to speak to us.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47585\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/110-300x1941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47585 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/110-300x1941.jpg\" alt=\"110-300x194\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/110-300x1941.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/110-300x1941-755x490.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Luisa Iglesias<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The condemned building that fell on top of Ernestina\u2019s house is still there, she tells us. They haven\u2019t come around to tear it down completely. Maria Luisa tells us that, in 1970, they evicted the building\u2019s tenants for the first time, owing to the risk of a collapse. Other locals fear that concrete giant will collapse again on top of their homes, as it did on April 29.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica also believes that, when the remains of the building finally come crashing down, they will crush everything below. What she is afraid of now is for a strong rain to come down again. Her fear is almost inexplicable, considering her home has suffered the worst of it already. She expresses a fairly widespread feeling: even those who have nothing more to lose fear the day\u2019s weather forecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this balcony, the boys from the neighborhood would jump head-first into the deep river that Gloria street had turned into this past April 29, after 188 millimeters of rain was recorded at the Havana weather station in Casablanca in the course of four hours. Three people died, parts of and entire buildings collapsed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2964,"featured_media":47569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13930],"tags":[11446,927],"ppma_author":[33725,7114],"class_list":["post-47567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technologies-of-communication-and-media","tag-floods","tag-rains"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gone With the Rain | 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\/gone-with-the-rain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gone With the Rain | OnCubaNews English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From this balcony, the boys from the neighborhood would jump head-first into the deep river that Gloria street had turned into this past April 29, after 188 millimeters of rain was recorded at the Havana weather station in Casablanca in the course of four hours. Three people died, parts of and entire buildings collapsed and [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"OnCubaNews English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-18T23:10:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-05-21T17:47:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-755x4901.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"755\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"490\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jorge Carrasco, carrasco\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jorge Carrasco\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"9 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jorge Carrasco\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5d7e5d47343b30ecb823786c234d4fae\"},\"headline\":\"Gone With the Rain\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-18T23:10:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-05-21T17:47:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1734,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/05\\\/102-755x4901.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"floods\",\"rains\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Technologies of Communication and Media\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2015\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/\",\"name\":\"Gone With the Rain | OnCubaNews English\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/05\\\/102-755x4901.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-18T23:10:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-05-21T17:47:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5d7e5d47343b30ecb823786c234d4fae\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/05\\\/102-755x4901.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/05\\\/102-755x4901.jpg\",\"width\":755,\"height\":490},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/styles-trends\\\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\\\/gone-with-the-rain\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Portada\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Gone With the Rain\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"OnCubaNews English\",\"description\":\"Revista sobre Cuba\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5d7e5d47343b30ecb823786c234d4fae\",\"name\":\"Jorge Carrasco\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.oncubanews.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/08\\\/L\u00e1zaro-Carrasco_avatar_1376057872-96x96.jpg00e6401256b0a16a3413460cc8e22e01\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.oncubanews.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/08\\\/L\u00e1zaro-Carrasco_avatar_1376057872-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.oncubanews.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/08\\\/L\u00e1zaro-Carrasco_avatar_1376057872-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Jorge Carrasco\"},\"description\":\"Jorge Carrasco est\u00e1 obsesionado, m\u00e1s que con otras cosas, con los tr\u00e1gicos, construidos y grotescos mundos del Pop Art. Y con los clips de video en los que mujeres con pelucas platinadas hacen en c\u00e1mara lenta gestos sin ning\u00fan sentido. A Jorge Carrasco no le pueden faltar un Ipod y una canci\u00f3n pop infame y barata, de las que dicen: \u00abYeah, you\u00b4re maybe good looking but you\u00b4re not a piece of art\u00bb.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/carrasco\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Gone With the Rain | OnCubaNews English","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Gone With the Rain | OnCubaNews English","og_description":"From this balcony, the boys from the neighborhood would jump head-first into the deep river that Gloria street had turned into this past April 29, after 188 millimeters of rain was recorded at the Havana weather station in Casablanca in the course of four hours. Three people died, parts of and entire buildings collapsed and [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/","og_site_name":"OnCubaNews English","article_published_time":"2015-05-18T23:10:02+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-05-21T17:47:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":755,"height":490,"url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-755x4901.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jorge Carrasco, carrasco","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jorge Carrasco","Est. reading time":"9 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/"},"author":{"name":"Jorge Carrasco","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/5d7e5d47343b30ecb823786c234d4fae"},"headline":"Gone With the Rain","datePublished":"2015-05-18T23:10:02+00:00","dateModified":"2015-05-21T17:47:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/"},"wordCount":1734,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-755x4901.jpg","keywords":["floods","rains"],"articleSection":["Technologies of Communication and Media"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2015","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/","url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/","name":"Gone With the Rain | OnCubaNews English","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-755x4901.jpg","datePublished":"2015-05-18T23:10:02+00:00","dateModified":"2015-05-21T17:47:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/5d7e5d47343b30ecb823786c234d4fae"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-755x4901.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-755x4901.jpg","width":755,"height":490},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/gone-with-the-rain\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Portada","item":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Gone With the Rain"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/","name":"OnCubaNews English","description":"Revista sobre Cuba","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/5d7e5d47343b30ecb823786c234d4fae","name":"Jorge Carrasco","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/www.oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/L\u00e1zaro-Carrasco_avatar_1376057872-96x96.jpg00e6401256b0a16a3413460cc8e22e01","url":"http:\/\/www.oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/L\u00e1zaro-Carrasco_avatar_1376057872-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/L\u00e1zaro-Carrasco_avatar_1376057872-96x96.jpg","caption":"Jorge Carrasco"},"description":"Jorge Carrasco est\u00e1 obsesionado, m\u00e1s que con otras cosas, con los tr\u00e1gicos, construidos y grotescos mundos del Pop Art. Y con los clips de video en los que mujeres con pelucas platinadas hacen en c\u00e1mara lenta gestos sin ning\u00fan sentido. A Jorge Carrasco no le pueden faltar un Ipod y una canci\u00f3n pop infame y barata, de las que dicen: \u00abYeah, you\u00b4re maybe good looking but you\u00b4re not a piece of art\u00bb.","url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/author\/carrasco\/"}]}},"authors":[{"term_id":33725,"user_id":2964,"is_guest":0,"slug":"carrasco","display_name":"Jorge Carrasco","avatar_url":"http:\/\/www.oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/L\u00e1zaro-Carrasco_avatar_1376057872-96x96.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""},{"term_id":7114,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cap-carrasco","display_name":"carrasco","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47567"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=47567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}