HAVANA TIMES — Over 400 endangered households were evacuated in Havana as heavy rains dropped over 280 millimeters of precipitation in different parts of the capital in a 24 hour period on Friday and Saturday.
By Saturday afternoon 49 buildings were severely damaged, eight totally, with a death toll of two citizens, reported the Cuban News Agency.
As the sun came out on Sunday the danger faced by weakened buildings increases, noted Juan Montalvo Guijarro, a high level official of the provincial civil defense.
While weather forecasters said there is a possibility of showers Sunday afternoon they are not expected to be of the intensity of the previous rainfall.
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