Heavy rains lash Cuba, flooding streets and homes

Record ID: 1675415

  • Title: Heavy rains lash Cuba, flooding streets and homes
  • Date: 3rd June 2022
  • Summary: HAVANA, CUBA (JUNE 3, 2022) (REUTERS) PERSON WALKING ACROSS FLOODED STREET HOLDING UMBRELLA PERSON PUSHING TAXI-BICYCLE THROUGH FLOODED STREET / VEHICLES DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED STREET IN BACKGROUND VEHICLES DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED STREET PEOPLE WALKING ACROSS FLOODED STREET AS VEHICLES DRIVE THROUGH PEOPLE AND VEHICLES MOVING THROUGH FLOODED STREET PERSON WALKING THROUGH FLOODED STREET PEOPLE PUSHING JAMMED BUS PERSON HOLDING BICYCLE LOOKING AT FLOODED AVENUE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CUBAN CITIZEN, MARCO ANTONIO ALVAREZ, SAYING: "The intensity of these rains has been very high, there is no drain that can stand that, there is nothing." VARIOUS OF VEHICLES DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED STREET VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING ACROSS THE FLOODED AVENUE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CUBAN CITIZEN, GILNORDIS DEL TORO, SAYING: "Well, I heard on television it was going to rain abundantly, quite a lot, but I didn't think it would be that much." VARIOUS OF HAVANA RESIDENT, JUAN ESTRADA, REMOVING WATER FROM FLOODED HOME (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CUBAN CITIZEN, JUAN ESTRADA, SAYING: "It kept raining since last night until now. The water started coming into the house during the morning. When I came to see, the water was already up here." PERSON PUSHING CAR THROUGH FLOODED STREET PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH A FLOODED CORRIDOR
  • Embargoed: 17th June 2022 20:30
  • Keywords: Cuba Havana floods rainfall rains water
  • Location: HAVANA, CUBA
  • City: HAVANA, CUBA
  • Country: Cuba
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Floods,South America / Central America
  • Reuters ID: LVA001262003062022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A tropical storm collapsed the streets and avenues of Havana early on Friday (June 3), as heavy rains hit areas in western and central Cuba.
    Locals were seen standing in streets with water covering their legs while pushing jammed cars and buses.
    Warnings were issued for Cuba, the Florida peninsula, and the Bahamas as the Alex storm, which pummelled Mexico in previous days and was known as Agatha, moves forward into the Atlantic Ocean basin.
    According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, rains are expected to continue on the island over Friday afternoon and night.
    Given the permanence of intense rainfall, the authorities made a call to pay attention to the evolution of the meteorological events, due to the saturation of the soil, mainly in low-lying areas with poor drainage.
    (Production: Nelson Gonzalez, Anett Rios, Sergio Rodriguez)
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