Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday in eastern Cuba. There was a 7-foot storm surge and flash floods.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reported on X that there was “considerable damage and 735,000 people were in shelters.
“It was quite bad. My wife and I had to leave because there was too much water,” Vicente Martínez, 69, told The Associated Press in Santiago de Cuba, where homes were damaged.
ETECSA, a Cuban state telecommunications company, was dealing with damage to the fiber optic cable in coastal municipalities, according to Granma, the newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
CNN’s Patrick Oppmann reported there were downed power lines and trees, and roofs damaged in Santiago de Cuba.
“As in all western Cuba, it has been an endless night and morning,” Yanetsy Terry Gutiérrez, the governor of Cuba’s Granma province, wrote on X with photos showing flooding, a fallen tree on a road, and a damaged roof.
In Bayamo, a city in southern Cuba’s Granma province, the Bayamo River had overflowed, and there were several streets flooded, according to the Bayamo CMKX, a state-run radio station.
In Urbano Noris, a city in northeastern Cuba’s Holguín province, there were downed trees and flooding blocking access to the communities of Estrada, San Bartolo, Travesía, Cauto 3, and Consejo Popular Urbano Sur, according to Radio SG La voz del Azúcar.
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