Although the eye of the hurricane left the island, in several western provinces, The Havana included, wind gusts of up to 208 km/h and heavy rains are maintained.
The United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) it said in its last bulletin that the storm was moving at a speed of 19 km/h with maximum sustained winds of 205 km/h.
In the state of Florida, the inhabitants are preparing for the imminent arrival of Ian, after a hurricane warning from the NHC for their coasts. The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantisdeclared on Monday condition of emergency in 67 counties.
“Overnight and this morning, some models that have been done project a landfall south of the Bay of Tampa“, the governor said at a press conference on Tuesday, specifying that it could make landfall in Sarasota.
“You have to understand that the impacts will be much broader” with “floods catastrophic and life-threatening storm surges,” he said.
Ian has “a historic potential for storm surges and floods,” he insisted, asking the population to heed “the evacuation orders.”
Some 5,000 members of the Guard National joined the 2,000 troops of Tennessee, Georgia Y Carolina of North to help deal with the cyclone, the governor said.
Tampa International Airport said it will suspend operations beginning at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday.
The American President, joe Bidenalso ordered a state of emergency in Florida, which allows the release of federal aid funds.
Cubans in shock by the destruction
On the way to San Juan y Martínez, 190 km from Havana, one of the hardest hit places and an area of tobacco plantations in Pinar del Río, there are completely flooded crops, uprooted trees, many as if they had been cut with an axe, and cables lying everywhere, AFP journalists confirmed.
Ian headed out into the Atlantic for Florida after making landfall in the town of The Coloma at 4:30, on the south coast of Pinar del Río, with category three on the Saffir-Simpson scale of five.
in the population Consolation of South, Caridad Fernández, a 65-year-old housewife, contemplates the disaster on the threshold. Her house is full of water, mattresses included, and the French roof tiles are gone in the hurricane. “We have everything damaged, but what we have is faith in maintaining life, and we have that. Everything comes out, except death,” she says.
Cigar grower Yuslán Rodríguez, 37, visits nine almost destroyed tobacco houses, including his own. “I don’t know what we are going to do this year with the campaign (planting),” he says disconsolately. “It’s not this tobacco house, it’s all the tobacco houses in Consolación del Sur.”
In San Juan y Martínez, the area that produces the best tobacco leaf for Cuban cigars, “it was apocalyptic, a real disaster,” Hirochi Robaina, of the Estate Bassoona prestigious tobacco plantation founded in 1845, about 30 kilometers from the town.
Source: Ambito
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