{"id":85442,"date":"2017-01-25T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=85442"},"modified":"2018-10-04T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T17:06:40","slug":"on-the-other-day-that-the-sea-came-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/society-cuba\/on-the-other-day-that-the-sea-came-in\/","title":{"rendered":"On the (other) day that the sea came in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muddy streets, workers in rubber boots, daring photographers, flooded basements, debris everywhere, destroyed walls, waves still hitting the Malec\u00f3n and the avenue, trucks with wet tires, mattresses being aired, wet, shaking dogs\u2026. That\u2019s how the Vedado district dawned this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This Monday January 23, as happened a year ago, there was an encroachment of sea in the low zone of Havana. Slight and moderate floods had been announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s exactly what they said,\u201d complains Alina when confirming the destruction the water caused in the crafts fair where she works, on 1ra and B, facing the sea.<\/p>\n<div style='display:none' class=\"jeg_preview_slider gallery_1\" data-selector='gallery_1'>\n                        <div class=\"jeg_preview_holder\">\n                            <div class=\"jeg_preview_media\">\n                        <div class=\"jeg_preview_media_holder\">\n                            <h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n                            <div class=\"fullscreen-switch\">\n                                <i class=\"fa\"><\/i>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"jeg_preview_media_content\">\n                                <div class=\"jeg_preview_media_content_holder_padding\">\n                                    <div class=\"jeg_preview_media_content_holder\"><\/div>\n                       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Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez<\/h3>\n                                <div class=\"jeg_preview_description_content\">\n                                    <p>Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>\n\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div><div class=\"jeg_hidden_preview_description\">\n                                <h3>2. Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez<\/h3>\n                                <div class=\"jeg_preview_description_content\">\n                                    <p>Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>\n\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div><div class=\"jeg_hidden_preview_description\">\n                                <h3>3. Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez<\/h3>\n                                <div class=\"jeg_preview_description_content\">\n                                    <p>Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>\n\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                        <script>\n                            var gallery_1 = {\n                                rtl: false,\n                                native_zoom: true,\n                                zoom_max: 5,\n                                zoom_step: 40,\n                                image_sequence: []\n                            };\n                        <\/script>\n                    <\/div>\n<p>Yuri, another artisan, lost some 150 of 200 pairs of shoes, \u201cothers were left without any.\u201d He kept them in a small container that the force of the waves dragged for more than 20 meters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had placed them at the height in which we thought they would be safe. It\u2019s been a long time since there had been such a big flood,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When encroachments are forecast in the low zone of the city, the artisans place their merchandise on high places, while the neighbors do the same with their refrigerators, mattresses, furniture and, when they have to, they themselves climb up to a level where they presume the powerful tide won\u2019t reach them.<\/p>\n<p>Yanelis also placed her furniture and refrigerator on top of the kitchen counter expecting it to withstand. She held in her arms her 3-year-old son during all the time water was coming in, for many hours. That morning they still didn\u2019t have gas. They used the electric cooker. \u201cWe\u2019re going to cook everything there, the rice and the eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85479\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Inundaci\u00f3n-Ismario-15-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85479\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Inundaci\u00f3n-Ismario-15-1.jpg\" alt=\" The refrigerator on the kitchen counter, also in the home of Antonio Romero. Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez.\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>The refrigerator on the kitchen counter, also in the home of Antonio Romero. Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Antonio Romero has been living here for 22 years. This time he lost nothing with the flood, but he not always has been that fortunate: \u201cI have spent three days with four nights at that door with water up to my neck. Two refrigerators have fallen from where I have placed them, on top of the counter. They were sailing inside the house,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat time I lost many things. My mattresses, the fans were also lost. That\u2019s it. It took me years to recover. One of these small floods of one day, two days, three days\u2026takes four or five years to more or less recover. More or less,\u201d he insists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85480\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/malecon8-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85480\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/malecon8-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The neighbors have gotten used to living with the possibility that the sea reaches them. Some of them are considering selling or swapping their homes. \u201cBut one has to wait for people to forget this,\u201d says Elisa laughing. They aren\u2019t the only ones that incorporate the latent danger to their daily life. Here\u2019s another testimony in Centro Habana, from April 2015:<\/p>\n<p>When Juan Jos\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez saw the water coming, he only managed to enter his home and run out carrying his dog. \u201cThe water entered fast. I ran, closed the door and went to a neighbor\u2019s home wearing exactly what I had on,\u201d he says pulling at an overall that makes him blend in with the electricians and other brigades prowling the place.<\/p>\n<p>His home, which apparently was a basement at one point or the building\u2019s garage, is still flooded to the ceiling with saltwater. \u201cToday I\u2019ll sleep again at my neighbor\u2019s.\u201d Who knows where tomorrow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85483\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Inundaci\u00f3n-Ismario-3-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85483\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Inundaci\u00f3n-Ismario-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">***<\/p>\n<p>The water invaded mainly the low zones of Vedado and Santa Ana, in Santa Fe, Playa municipality. It also entered Centro Habana and Old Havana.<\/p>\n<p>More than 400 meters from the Malec\u00f3n wall to the city were covered in water. Along that stretch almost all the basements were flooded by the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The flood did not cause human losses, but it did cause material damages that still haven\u2019t been counted. The damages include cars pushed and overturned by the current. More than a dozen cars \u2013 almost all from state enterprises \u2013 in the parking lot of 1ra between A and B were dragged, some to the middle of the street.<\/p>\n<p>In the primetime newscast of 8 p.m. the government authorities and the Communist Party in Havana had assured that \u201cthe population has been opportunely warned\u201d and they announced the evacuation of some 40 families. \u201cThe floods have been stronger than expected,\u201d they recognized.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night the Red Cross, the Firefighters and the Civil Defense helped persons who had been trapped.<\/p>\n<p>The sanitation works in the affected areas and the reestablishment of basic services started this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Luisa Mar\u00eda Alvarez, coordinator of Havana\u2019s Basic Cleaning Up Operations, is monitoring the work of a brigade in the zone. \u201cWe are in charge of clearing the networks, be it the cleaning of cisterns, of the entire interior network of the homes of each one of the persons who have been affected by the encroachment of the sea. We are working with trucks from different municipalities. All the city trucks are working on the damages along the entire coast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just in one block there were nine contaminated cisterns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">***<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85482\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85482\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/malecon4-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85482\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/malecon4-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the Cuban Institute of Meteorology these floods were caused by \u201can extensive extra tropical low over South Carolina, the United States,\u201d which covers with its wide circulation the entire Cuban territory and imposes swells in western Cuba and strong winds from the northwestern region of between 25 and 40 kilometers per hour, with gusts of over 60 kilometers per hour.<\/p>\n<p>This situation started to gradually decline starting this Tuesday morning, when the winds turned to the north and decreased their intensity.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that the swells will turn into waves on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCold front No. 6 is already over the province of Camag\u00fcey advancing toward the east. Behind the front the northwestern winds are causing wave sequences on the northern coast and they are the ones that are causing the coastal floods. To the extent that the system advances toward the east they will start decreasing little by little, especially starting this Tuesday morning,\u201d said Dr. Jos\u00e9 Rubiera on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jayr Morales, first secretary of the Communist Party in Plaza de la Revoluci\u00f3n, the registered levels of encroachment were higher with respect to January last year. Since 2004 the sea has not reached the places where it reached this Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muddy streets, workers in rubber boots, daring photographers, flooded basements, debris everywhere, destroyed walls, waves still hitting the Malec\u00f3n and the avenue, trucks with wet tires, mattresses being aired, wet, shaking dogs\u2026. That\u2019s how the Vedado district dawned this Tuesday. 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