Forward from mart. PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY. 1) [NYTr] Cuba Employs All Preventive Measures for Ivan
2) [CubaNews] From Damian, in Havana - a hurricane update ================================================ 1) ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:22 AM Subject: Cuba Employs All Preventive Measures for Ivan Via NY Transfer News Collective All the News that Doesn't Fit [With sustained winds of 165 miles an hour (making it a rare Category 5 storm, Ivan is now moving very slowly northwest at about 8 miles an hour.The BBC World news last night reported that Cuba had so far evacuated *2 million people* from areas of most danger. Unlike US newscasts, which skip from the Cayman Islands to Florida as if Cuba didn't exist, the BBC did a long report with video showing huge hanging objects being removed by cranes from the streets, people lining up for supplies, etc. The proprietor of a Rapido (fast food chain) was even removing the neon tubes from his outside sign. The BBC reporter explained that Cuba was "a different sort of place from other islands in the region," and that the Cuban government had an extremely good record when it came to preventing loss of life in natural disasters like Ivan.-NY Transfer] ================================== Agencia Cubana de Noticias (AIN) http://www.ain.cu President Castro Insists on Preventive Measures in case Ivan Hits the Island Havana, 12 September (AIN) President Fidel Castro insisted Saturday on the need of keeping all preventive measures to face hurricane Ivan, despite the temporary changes the storm has made on its path. The Cuban leader made this remarks on a special edition of nationally televised "The Round Table" program, especially devoted to inform the Cuban people on the latest developments regarding the course of the storm. While the impact the hurricane will have on the Cuba is still unknown, island's citizens have been actively taking all necessary measures to preserve human lives and protect material resources. >From the onset of the program, the Cuban leader showed special interest in collecting >information on those portions of the Cuban territories with the most probabilities of >being directly hit by Ivan. Doctor Jose Rubiera, head of the Forecast Center of the Institute of Meteorology, explained that the six models being followed to prognosticate the path that the tempest is likely to follow within the next 48 hours coincide in pointing that the western portion of the island as the area with the greatest risk. At six o' clock in the morning on Saturday, a Hurricane Warning was declared for from Pinar del Rio to Ciego de Avila provinces, including the special municipality of the Isle of Youth. According to meteorologist Rubiera, Ivan has again reached the category of five in the Saffir-Simpson Scale, with maximum sustained winds of 270 kilometers per hour. Currently, the hurricane has an internal pressure of 912 hectopascals, and the climatic conditions surrounding it, including the current warmth of the ocean waters, gives way to optimism, but caution should prevail, said the specialist. Present in the program was Lieutenant Colonel Luis Angel Cede�o, from the National Civil Defense Staff. He called on the population to follow all the instructions being issued by authorities in all municipalities that will be catering to the specifications of each territory. The moderator of the program, Randy Alonso, stressed that the slowness in the movement of the hurricane, which is advancing at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour, allows for more time, and that advantage should be efficiently used for more preventive work. In that regard, it was reported that efforts are underway to collect construction materials in warehouses. Medicines, raw material, finished products, food and equipment are also being stored, while garbage is being collected from streets and rooftops. As in previous storms, Cubans are committed to face the challenge, and have made human solidarity a main resource to cope with the process. In the nightly program, a special recognition was made to the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, strongholds of cohesion and organization in neighborhoods. The National Police was also recognized for the work is doing in the protection of the belongings and houses of citizens who have been evacuated to safer places. Fidel Castro once again reiterated that the main purpose behind all these measures is to preserve human lives, and emphasized that there are enough food reserves for the population. The Cuban leader also focused on the economic impact the hurricane may have on the island if its crosses its territory. He suggested the adoption of measures at the governmental level to create the necessary structures to resist in the near future the pounding of storms that will become more severe. The leader of the Revolution added that the island should also get ready for a shortage of water, a phenomenon that will apparently prevail in the future of humanity, due to the climate changes being provoked by the global warming. ============================================ Search the NYTr Archives at: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr To subscribe or unsubscribe or change your settings via the web, visit: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr ================================================= NY Transfer News Collective A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =============================================== 2) [CubaNews] From Damian, a hurricane update ----- Original Message ----- From: Walter Lippmann To: Marxism List ; CubaNews Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: [CubaNews] From Damian, a hurricane update (Damian is my next-door neighbor in Vedado when I am in Cuba. He's a translator and works on Radio Havana Cuba's web page for which he prepares cultural coverage.) ========================================== From: Damian Donestevez Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 9:23 AM To: walter Subject: damian, hurricane >From Damian, a hurricane update Hi, Walter, yesterday we hoped that Ivan the Terrible might head to Yucat�n as the head of the Meteorology Institute's Forcast Department, Jos� Rubiera, said that at five p.m yesterday the meteor had been moving westward for about hree hours and that previously at midnight it had done the same. However, it seems that it's going to hit the western part of the island, mainly the Isle of Youth and Pinar del R�o. A Cuban TV report from the Isle of Youth this morning said that gales ranging from 65 to 68 kms per hours are already being felt there. Here in Havana it is slightly sunny and sometimes a little bit cloudy, but it's not windy, we don't feel the effects of the hurricane yet. It's been reportedly said that many residents in Havana are currently being vacuated. Another Cuban TV report this morning said that at the Fine Arts Museum's two buildings, the staff is packing and transfering the most vulnerable works of art to safer places in the buildings to protect them from the hurricane,the Havana based Casa de las Am�ricas cultural institution which is located just 20 meters away from Havana's Malec�n or Seaside Wall and Drive is doing the same to protect a collection of thousands of books, works of arts and othe ultural objects from Latin America. And the Cuban Film Institute also announced that the Animated Film Center which was recently renovated and whose technology was dramatically upgraded to the extent that it already has state of the art technology to make digital cartoons is protecting all computers and moving them to safer sites. At noon, Rubiera will try to define better where Ivan is going to cross in Cuban territory. The little and coastal town of Siboney south of the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba has reportedly been affected by floods caused by the hurricane, almost completely destroying its seaside wall. More later , Yours, Dami�n. ============================================== Cuba News http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/messages To subscribe to Cuba News group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================= [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/VL0olB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Peruuta ryhm�n tilaus l�hett�m�ll� s�hk�postia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! 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