HEAVY RAINS

People from Sancti Spiritus resumed actions to compensate the damages caused in the last 72 hours by the second storm that affects the central province of Cuba in less than a month.»

According to specialists from the Provincial Meteorological Center (CMP) heavy rains have hit the mountain areas and the southern part of Trinidad and Sancti Spiritus, with the highest cumulative reported between 8:00 am Tuesday and 8 : 00 am Wednesday in the measuring points of Topes de Collantes, 331, 5 millimeters (mm) and Casilda, 306 mm.»

Local heavy rains have been reported in the southern coast of Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba, with the greatest accumulation in the town of Tunas de Zaza, where 152 mm were scored until 8:00AM this Tuesday.»

Cuban Council of State Vice President Esteban Lazo called in Sancti Spiritus for a reasonable use of the resources allocated for recovery tasks, specially fuel, and not to give up in the fulfillment of the scheduled plans.»

Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, second secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) Central Committee and first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, urged to work quickly and take advantage of the improved weather conditions to move forward in the recovery phase, in a visit paid to Sancti Spiritus province on Friday.»

Although recent rains were not as intense as those of the previous week, Sancti Spiritus province, in central Cuba, was hit again this Saturday with significant accumulations in some locations in the center and south of the territory.»

Once traffic was re-established in the major roads of Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba, efforts are focused on other access roads which were also damaged by last week heavy rains.»

The picture of twisted rails, bare roads, and bottomless hollows could be better connected with a Steven Spielberg production than with the present condition of the railroad that runs from the Cuban village of Trinidad to the town of Meyer, in the Escambray ridge of mountains.»

The heavy rains hitting Sancti Spiritus province, in central Cuba, caused great damage to the roads in the territory, which constitute the most important sequel of the climatic adversity, as the Provincial Defense Council recently noted.»

The protected persons in evacuation centers and family homes due to the heavy rains hitting Sancti Spiritus began returning to their domiciles on Monday afternoon by order of the President of the Provincial Defense Council, Jose Ramon Ruiz Monteagudo.»