Hurricanes in Cuba in the year. Destructive hurricane "Irma" is coming to Cuba and the US state of Florida

Hurricane Irma became one of the most devastating in the history of Cuba and inflicted a serious damage to the country's tourist sector, as it passed almost on all popular tourist areas, including Cayo-Coco, Kayo-Guillermo, Kayo-Santa Maria and Varadero. Now tourists traveling to Cuba are often interested in this hurricane and its consequences. We will tell about this in this article.

How it was

September 6, 2017. Stage of warning.
The headquarters of civil defense issued a warning that during 48-72 hours, the hurricane will come to Guantanamo Province, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Olgin, Las Tunas, Camaguei, Siego de Avila and Villa Clara. After that, the warning tourists from Cayo-Coco, Cayo-Guillo and other neighboring islands were evacuated either in Varadero or homeland.

September 7, 2017. Stage alarm.
Civilian defense of Cuba increased the level of readiness for the phase of alarms, which led to a complete ban on traffic on the roads and preventive disabling electrical networks.

September 8-10, 2017. Irma passes through Cuba.
Irma from September 8 to September 10 swept over the northern coast of Cuba. In the area of \u200b\u200bKayo-Koko and the neighboring islands, the hurricane has fired from the evening on September 8 to morning on September 9. Hurricane's eyes passed only a little south of Kayo-Coco. On the approach to this island, its power fell from the 5th category to the 4th.

September 9, 2017. The first estimates of damage.
In the evening of September 9, it became clear that the airport of Cayo Coco islands will be closed for repairs for a few weeks, because Hurricane Irma greatly destroyed it.

The consequences of Hurricane Irma on Cayo-Coco

Hurricane Irma inflicted serious damage to infrastructure and hotels on the Islands of the Jardanez del Rey Archipelago. All hotels were closed for repairs. Each hotel was badly damaged, and some hotels received major structural damage.
The dam, which connects Kayo-Coco Island with Cuba, was damaged in several places, so it was impossible to get to the island. 80% of foliage from trees was torn by hurricane.
Tour operators suspended flights to the Islands of the Jardarya del Rey Archipelago Island until October 31, and the Russian tour operator "Anex-Tour" and canceled the flight program at all in this region.

Kayo Coco after Hurricane Irma

The restoration of the tourist infrastructure of Cuba was thrown great forces. On September 23, at the presentation, on which many journalists and representatives of the tour operators gathered, Cuba Manuel Cruz Tourism Minister said "Everything should be restored until November 15." His promise was fulfilled. Only the Tryp Cayo Coco hotel opened after renovation on November 30, and all other hotels were open until November 15.
At the initial stage, it was restored in about one week of the dam. This made it possible to deliver materials and labor on the road, and not by water. Already on September 25, water and electricity was restored on the island. At the end of September and early October, Kayo-Koko hotels on their official pages in social networks reported their re-opening dates. Only at the Tryp Cayo Coco Hotel, the opening date was scheduled for the date after November 15. This hotel was originally planned to open on December 15, but, as we have already said above, he was eventually open on November 30, that is, at a half months earlier than the planned term.
Closer to mid-October, many Canadian and Latin American tour operators, who promised to run charters from November 1 to November 30, were identified regarding flights on Cayo-Coco.

Repeated openings of hotels in Cayo Coco and Kayo Guillermo

November 1, 2017 were re-open with Sol Cayo Coco, Melia Jardines del Rey, Pestana Cayo Coco, Melia Cayo Guillermo, Iberostar Daiquiri, Sol Gayo Guillermo, Sercotel Club Cayo Guillermo, Iberostar Playa Pilar.
November 4, 2017 Hotels Melia Cayo Coco and Memories Flamenco Beach Resort were opened.
On November 15, 2017, Pullman Cayo Coco, Playa Coco, Iberostar Colonial, Memories Caribe and Iberostar Mojito were opened.
On November 30, the Tryp Cayo Coco Hotel reopened its doors for tourists.

The destructive hurricane "Irma", which has already devastated the territory of a number of countries of the Caribbean, hit Cuba on Saturday.

TV channels show how multi-meter waves are flooded with the legendary Havanje Embankment Malecon, the favorite place of walks of residents of the capital and foreign tourists with a length of eight kilometers. In some areas of Havana, the supply of electricity and drinking water was stopped, interruptions were felt with communication. Until noon, Sunday local time (17 hours of Moscow) is closed by the José Marty International Airport, through which most foreign tourists arrive in Cuba.

However, experts noted, until the very capital of the "Eye" "Irma" did not reach, applying a major blow 200 kilometers from her. The gusts of the wind in the province of Camagueu reached 260 km / h.

As AFP notes, Irma is the first hurricane since 1932, which directly affected the territory of Cuba. Sememeter waves were recorded on the northern coast of Cuba by a local meteorological service, and the residents of Havana received "alert" about the danger of flooding.

A total of about two million people in Cuba were forced to leave their homes. "Given the inevitability of" Irma ", there was a road every minute," the main newspaper Cuba "Granma" wrote in his editorice. Hurricane has brought the strongest damage to St. Lucia in the province of Camaguei. The waves of a few meters height caused significant damage to houses and tourist objects, notes Cadenagramonte.cu.

No information on possible victims and damage to Cuba has not been received.

Cuba Since the days of Fidel Castro has one of the world's best alert systems and evacuation of people when natural disasters occurred and well prepared for natural disasters. At the same time, each new hurricane is a painful blow to the Cuban economy living in the conditions of an unprecedented blockade by the United States, the action of which, by the way, on Friday was extended by the President of Trump for another year.

Meanwhile, the hurricane center of the United States (NCA) in his bulletin, promulgated on Saturday evening, noted that "Eye Irma begins to slowly move from the coast of Cuba, leading to a sharp deterioration in the weather in South Florida." In the south-east of the United States "are expected to floods in a few hundred kilometers of the coast due to the action of potentially deadly storm," the US National Meteorological Service (NWS) warned in turn.

Residents of this "sunny" of the American state where about 20 million people live, in a panic left their homes. As AFP notes with reference to meteorologists, Irma will reach the southeastern coast of the United States already on Sunday with wind gusts 240 kilometers per hour and can cause massive flooding.

Local authorities warn that "there is no more space where people can be safe" in Florida-Kis, a popular tourist destination in South Florida. Here from the coastal zone, according to official estimates, about a million people are evacuated, but the number of people who hastily leave their homes can be significantly higher. In total, the state was evacuated from their homes as of Saturday evening about 6.3 million people - that is, every third resident of Florida.

According to observers estimates, in Miami, where the numerous community of Cuban emigrants lives - more than a million people who left the island of freedom, remained mostly low-income people. Those who have not yet evacuated, or are looking for places in shelters, or try to somehow protect their miserable home by boards. "The roofs from the houses will fly in any case, these houses are rotten," the refugee with Cuba Pedro Marty admitted. In an interview, he called the defense of his house made from plywood boards "Funny".

Meanwhile, Miami Streets, this "lazy and idle" city, became unusual deserted. Beaches without vacationers, deserted streets and empty skyscrapers - Miami Beach overnight became the "Ghost City". The mayor of this famous resort town of Phil Levin called "Irma" with a nuclear hurricane, ... so powerful and so extensive. "

The US authorities, who previously announced a state of emergency in the states of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, decided to introduce it also in Virginia, believing that "Irma" can reach the northeast coast of the country. "This is a storm of a huge devastating force, and I ask all those who are on the path of the storm, follow all the instructions of government officials," said Donald Trump in his Twitter. He spent a weekend in the presidential residence in Camp David, where two weeks ago she followed the action of Hurricane Harvey.

Recall that in order to help local authorities, the US Navy announced sending from the port of Norfolk, Virginia, Avosham Lincoln aircraft carrier, two landing vehicles and another ship. These four vessels, on board which there are 300 people and 27 helicopters, should provide medical care if necessary, the logistical assistance and safety of people affected by the Hurricane "Irma", noted the leadership of the US Navy in his statement.

Recall that Irma became one of the most devastating hurricanes in the world at least over the past decade. His deadly action has been continuing for almost five days. At the same time, the hurricane hit the residents of the poor Caribbean countries, which already live in extremely difficult conditions.

In general, according to official estimates, Hurricane "Irma" was due to the life of 25 people (10 - in the French part and two in the Dutch part of Saint-Mainene, four on the American Virgin Islands, six on the British part of the Virgin Islands and the Anguilla Archipelago, two in Puerto Rico, one in Barbuda). The number of victims can increase significantly as the breakdowns. It is known that, for example, at least 80 percent of the buildings destroyed on the island of Barbuda.

The confusion, confusion and tensions reign, according to observers estimates, among the inhabitants of Saint-Martin Island five days after the passage of "Irma". In the city of Marya, the capital of the French part of Saint Marten, the streets of torn roofs are lying on the streets, numerous garbage, various household waste. Many surviving houses, including cottage buildings, where tourists live, were flooded. Chaos enjoy the marauders who rushed to the shops to steal refrigerators and televisions.

The situation is exacerbated by the shift of the destructive "irma" in this part of the Caribbean moves hurricane "Jose", which intensified to the fourth category, with wind gusts up to 240 kilometers per hour. And his main blow will be on Saint-Martin Islands and Saint-Bartelmi, the inhabitants of which have not yet managed to recover from shock.

According to Euronews, several villages in the coastal zone flooded on the island. But in general, as for destruction, Cuba suffered slightly compared to neighbors. By the time of the collapse on the island of the hurricane we have weakened to the 3rd degree (before it is to the highest, fifth category of danger).

People go on a ruined hurricane street in the city of Kaibaryen. September 9, 2017
Vacationers and the guard estimate the beach the next day after the fear of the elements. Many tourists continued swimming in the high ocean waves from Varadero. September 10, 2017
The winds of the roof sheets broke off the roofs of the buildings in the city of Rememedios in Cuba. September 9, 2017
Tourist from China drinks rum on the beach the day after the impact of the elements in Cuba. September 10, 2017
A local resident hides rain after the passage of Irma in the Cuban city of Kaibaryen. September 9, 2017
Element reheated palm tree. Snapshot from the waterfront of Kaibaryen
Tourists from England and Scotland are sitting with drinks at the hotel after passing the Hurricane "Irma" in the resort town of Varadero in Cuba. September 11, 2017
Horse attached to the door lattice from one of the buildings after the passage of "Irma" in Cuba
A man talks with a neighbor and collects water in parallel to clean the front door in his house after a hurricane

Huge waves spawned the embankment of the old colonial city, after the northern coast of the island was smattered with a storm blow. Residents of the Cuban capital were in the water in the water. Communications Havana are completely destroyed.

"This is a terrible catastrophe, since most buildings are not ready for the elements and will not stand the flood," says Cubian Janmar Suarez, standing on the breast in the water.

Express info in the country

Cuba (Republic of Cuba) is an island state in the northern part of the Caribbean.

Capital- Havana

Largest cities: Havana, Santiago de Cuba

Form of government - Socialist Republic

Territory- 110 860 km 2 (104th in the World)

Population- 11.38 million people. (77th in the world)

Official language - Spanish

Religion - Catholicism, Sinnotism

ICR- 0,769 (67th in the World)

GDP- $ 77.15 billion (66th in the world)

Currency- Peso

"For all 49 years, that I live here, this happened for the first time," says Ernesto Los, whose house, fortunately, was on the elevation and suffered the least. - The ocean level has always risen, but there has never been a flood. "

The authorities of Cuba said that in the capital, the wind speed reached 150 km / h. On Sunday, Havana remained without electricity, water supply and telephone relations were interrupted. In some places, the ocean water rose higher than 500 m. The city municipality reports that the situation is not improved until Tuesday.

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"Irma" destroyed the center of Cuba on Saturday to the base - demolishing the roofs, pulling out the trees with the root, breaking the power lines. Cuban media reported that the wind speed reached 256 km / h. The authorities evacuated about a million people, about 4 thousand of them from the coastal districts and tourist centers. The victims in Cuba are not reported.

Cuban help hand

Now Cuba itself is in a distressed position, but last week about 750 doctors were sent to help regions affected by Irma's depletion - on Antigua Islands, Barbuda, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Saint Lucia, Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Cuban doctors at the Dominican Islands

A small country with a population of 11 million. It does not remain indifferent to the victims of the element. So, a brigade of 600 Cuban health workers worked in Sierra Leone in 2014 at the height of Ebola's fever, as well as 1,200 Cuban doctors were in Haiti after an earthquake in 2010. Who will come to help Cuba today?

Hurricane "Irma" fell into this watch on the province of Siego de Avila and Camaguei (Cuba) and intensified to the maximum fifth category. Wind speed in the epicenter reaches 257 km / h (71 m / s), with gusts up to 313 km / h (87 m / s).

In connection with the alarm regime in Cuba, emergency measures have been introduced, which provide for the evacuation of the population from the most dangerous areas, a full ban on the movement of vehicles and disconnect the power grid for security reasons.

The "level of informing" was introduced about the elements in the Cuban provinces of Sancti Spiritus, Sienfuegos and Matansas, located west. They are recommended: to prepare asylum, clean the streets and storage of food reserves and fuel.

The number of evacuated, in connection with the threat of tsunami, residents of Cuba and tourists exceeded a million people, representatives of the civil defense of the island state reported. People posted in 45 evacuation centers, 39 specialized shelters or in the homes of relatives. People help each other because helping others help themselves!

Earlier, on the province of Guantanamo, Olgin and Las Tunas in the east of Cuba, a tropical storm hit, indicating the approach of Hurricane Irma.

From Hurricane "Irma" Cuban authorities also save animals. For example, the helicopter was transported to a safe place six dolphins from Dolphinarium at the resort of Kayo-Guillermo in the province of Siego de Avila.

The consequences of storm waves in Baracoa, Cuban Guantanamo Province.

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