November 09, 2008
Hurricane Paloma Strikes Cuba
Image courtesy of NOAA
Hurricane Paloma made landfall last night near Santa Cruz Del Sur, Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane. So far, media reports don't indicate massive destruction on the scale of Gustav and Ike, but it's still early and no doubt that areas along the southern coast of Camaguey and Las Tunas provinces got hammered last night. Let's hope and pray that Cubans won't go through the misery that they've already had to endure the past 2 months.
Some good news: Paloma is falling apart right over Camaguey, so it looks like the worst is over as far as the storm is concerned.
Posted by Robert M at November 9, 2008 10:00 AM
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You have to wonder what's left to destroy...
Posted by: Lazaro ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at November 9, 2008 10:18 AM
500 houses destroyed;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081109/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/tropical_weather
Posted by: Peter Perez at November 9, 2008 03:05 PM
back in november 9th, 1932, a hurricane deleted
santa cruz del sur from the cuba map...the whole
place was gone and more than 3k people lost their
lives, among them my dad and oldest brother plus
most of the crew of the "Nueva Concha". a goleta
my dad owned, registered in cienfuegos, LV my
hometown....the only survivor of a crew of 9
was my uncle...so it goes without saying that
nature and some women are very capricious
Playa Rancho Luna
Posted by: MarCaribe_CUBA_1492 at November 12, 2008 10:05 AM
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