HURRICANE LILI BASHES BAHAMAS; CUBA REELING FROM CROP DAMAGE.Byline: Will Lester Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Hurricane Lili tore off roofs, swamped banana farms and disrupted communications across the Bahamas on Saturday, a day after battering Cuba's crucial sugar and coffee crops. But the damage was scattered, and no serious injuries were reported. ``We were lucky,'' said acting Police Commissioner Erold Farquahar. Lili headed east into the Atlantic on Saturday after bashing the islands of the Bahamas Islands of the Bahamas. Directory: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
Saturday night, Lili was centered about 365 miles south-southwest of Bermuda and was moving east-northeast at 29 mph. It was expected to pass south of Bermuda today, and then into the open Atlantic. The hurricane had sustained winds of near 115 mph, which were expected to weaken. The only injury reported was a fisherman on Andros Island who was cut by a propeller when his boat flipped over in high seas high seas In maritime law, the waters lying outside the territorial waters of any and all states. In the Middle Ages, a number of maritime states asserted sovereignty over large portions of the high seas. . He was treated at a community clinic and released. In Cuba, there also was only one injury reported - that of a man hit by a falling tree. But the storm's high winds and 12 inches of rain inflicted severe damage on sugar plantations, mills and coffee crops in the central section of the island nation. ``It has been a real disaster,'' said Miguel Diaz Canel, a Communist party official in Villa Clara province Villa Clara is one of the provinces of Cuba. It's located in the central region of the island bordering with the Atlantic at north, Matanzas Province by west, Sancti Spiritus by east, and Cienfuegos on the South. , a largely agricultural area located on the north-central side of the island. Diaz said the wind flattened most of the sugar fields and ripped corrugated cor·ru·gate v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates v.tr. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves. v.intr. metal roofing from the province's 28 sugar mills. He estimated that 90 percent of the province's plantain plantain (plăn`tĭn), any plant of the genus Plantago, chiefly annual or perennial weeds of wide distribution. Many species are lawn pests and the pollen is often a hay fever irritant. P. crop was severely damaged as well as tobacco seedlings - more bad news for the island's agriculture industry, which suffered heavy losses during a 1993 storm. The drenching drenching farmer's term for the administration of medicines as solutions or suspensions in water by mouth with a drench bottle, gun or funnel. drenching bit to be included in a bridle as a bit. rain ruined much of the coffee crop as berries were just beginning to mature on the bushes. The storm also knocked down more than 67 utility poles in Villa Clara province, cutting telephone communications and electricity. More than 3,000 homes were destroyed and 26,000 partly damaged by Hurricane Lily in its rampage through Cuba, national civil defense officials reported Saturday. |
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