Havana residents face blackouts after hurricane

(28 Sep 2022)
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Havana, Cuba – 28 September 2022
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of dark city, hotels and some street lighting with generators
2. Various of dark streets, cars, pedestrians, city
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yaina Gonzalez, resident:
"It is not easy with this blackout because one has food for small children, and with this heat, it is not easy."
4. Various of people sitting on sidewalk next to electric generator
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Oslayder Urgelles, resident:
"I am uninformed, I have no charge on my phone, I have nothing, I don't know anything about what has happened. They took away the electricity and so far it has not come (back)."
++DAY SHOTS++
6. Police on the street
7. Person inside his house using a flashlight
8. Various of residents looking at waves on Malecon waterfront
9. Various of strong waves, sea
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rafael Alarcon, resident:
"This (island-wide blackout) as far as I remember, I don't think it has happened before. What happens is that experiences from other events have been accumulating and I think it has been a new strategy to avoid interruptions and so on."
11. Various of man cleaning culvert, strong waves
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OUTER SPACE - 28 September 2022
12. Satellite STILL showing Hurricane Ian over the Gulf of Mexico  
STORYLINE:
Cuban officials said they had begun to restore some power Wednesday after Hurricane Ian knocked out electricity to the entire island while devastating some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it hit the island’s western tip as a major storm.
The Energy and Mines Ministry announced it had restored energy to three regions by activating two large power plants in Felton and Nuevitas and was working to get others back on line.
But the capital, Havana, and other parts of western Cuba remained without power on Wednesday in the wake of the major hurricane, which had advanced northward to Florida.
On Tuesday, Ian hit a Cuba that has been struggling with an economic crisis and has faced frequent power outages in recent months.
It made landfall as a Category 3 storm on the island’s western end, devastating Pinar del Río province, where much of the tobacco used for Cuba’s iconic cigars is grown.
Tens of thousands of people were evacuated and others fled the area ahead of the arrival of Ian, which caused flooding, damaged houses and toppled trees.
Authorities were still assessing the damage, although no fatalities had been reported.
Ian’s winds also damaged one of Cuba’s most prestigious tobacco farms, Finca Robaina.
Officials had set up 55 shelters and took steps to protect crops, especially tobacco.
Local government station TelePinar reported heavy damage at the main hospital in Pinar del Rio city, tweeting photos of collapsed ceilings and downed trees. No deaths were reported.
Videos on social media showed downed power lines and cut off roads in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Artemisa and Mayabeque. A hospital in Pinar del Río was damaged.
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