From the Malecon: It doesn’t stop raining in Cuba

As if the Cuban people have not suffered enough misfortunes of all kinds recently, the hydro-meteorological events top it all or, as they say, it’s the last drop that fills the most peaceable cup.

Lately, we have seen up-close two of these terrible demonstrations of a rebellious climate: the battering of the Eastern region of Cuba by a hurricane over a week ago, where it has not stopped raining, by the way; and the onslaught of a DANA, or high impact rainfall, in our dear Valencia, Spain. Deaths, flooding, material losses, unspeakable pain, mud and sludge everywhere. A true hallmark of calamity and impotence. An act of rebellion by Mother Nature.

And to make things worse, the Cuban capital is at this very moment in danger, having miraculously escaped until now the devastating force of a hurricane that could cause unimaginable chaos in a city with serious structural problems in its constructions and a propensity for severe flooding because it is seaside location.

According to the experts, the tropical depression that is near neighboring Jamaica, a little less than 60 km from Cuba, has all the probabilities of reaching the Western region of Cuba as a hurricane on Wednesday. It already has a name, Rafael. Thus, we get the hurricane warnings for the Western provinces, including Havana.

We can only cross our fingers and watch, precisely, the heavens from where the misfortunes will fall.

Rafael, please be kind. We’re without everything, including nails.