By Louis A. Pérez Jr.
The 1st publication to set up hurricanes as a key consider the improvement of contemporary Cuba, Winds of switch exhibits how those nice storms performed a decisive function in shaping the economic climate, the tradition, and the state in the course of a serious century within the island's history.
Always susceptible to hurricanes, Cuba was once ravaged in 1842, 1844, and 1846 by means of 3 catastrophic storms, with incredible losses of existence and estate. Louis P
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As a result of the hurricane, diverse diseases have claimed the lives of many people. An immense number of cattle, pigs, 6251 Perez / WINDS OF CHANGE / sheet 43 of 209 and horses have perished. Houses are in ruin. All the fruit trees, all the banana plants, and all the sugar cane fields have been leveled, leaving us without fruits to eat or seeds to plant. The price of jerked beef, honey, sugar, and salt has risen. The poor endure these scarcities with mounting bitterness.
For the last two days the living have been employed in burying the dead; this is a most distressing sight; wherever one turns, there are coffins to be met with. . 3 12:59 DST:101 / / / / / Hurricanes caused destruction in many forms. The winds exerted a powerful force on the ocean surface and generated enormous swells often far in advance of the approaching storm. Gale-force winds lashed the coast as the 6251 Perez / WINDS OF CHANGE / sheet 33 of 209 hurricane moved out of deep water.
3 12:59 DST:101 thus for some days surviving through dire need and with considerable effort, for all the food and provisions of the town were lost. . 34 An estimated , persons lost their lives in the hurricane of October ; more than , residents of Havana perished in October . 35 ‘‘The effects of the hurricane were so deplorable,’’ nineteenth-century historian Jacobo de la Pezuela wrote of the hurricane around Havana, ‘‘that on the following days there were neither seedlings nor nursery beds that had not been flooded.