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Cuban capital remains
without power after hurricane
TerraDaily,
August 14, 2004.
HAVANA (AFP) Aug 14, 2004 - Hurricane Charley
became the most destructive tropical storm
to hit Cuba's western Havana Province since
1915, killing four, damaging 11,000 homes
and knocking down hundreds of power line
polls, Civil Defense officials said Saturday.
Another 5,000 homes were damaged in the
rest of Cuba and the western province of
Pinar del Rio lost power.
Traveling south to north, the hurricane
cut its destructive swath through Havana
Province in just two hours on Friday.
The storm damaged 502 schools and 22 health
centers in Pinar del Rio and Havana provinces,
officials said.
Residents in the capital, Havana, were
still without power, which authorities were
promising to restore to 80 percent of the
city Sunday.
National and international flights resumed
at Havana's main airport, despite damage
to the control tower.
After Cuba, Hurrican Charley hit southwestern
Florida, destroying thousands of homes,
leaving more than one million people without
power and hundreds of thousands without
water.
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