I had decided to
describe my experience when visiting my homeland of Santiago de Cuba after it
was victim of hurricane Sandy on October 2012 as the main topic for my second
essay.
Nothing in the final
local weather forecast before the hurricane made landfall advised that the
storm surge would approach the unprecedented level it finally reached. The
unexpected event took only five hours but it affected the lives of hundreds of
thousands of people. Most of the city’s infrastructure showed the irrefutable
fury of Mother Nature. Those images will
be tattooed in my memory forever. Faces saturated with expressions of fear,
impotency and helplessness inundated the remaining of a city that cried for
help while the government seemed to be interested in prioritizing the
rebuilding of the billboards containing communist propaganda.
Almost a year later
my town still exhibits traces of its recent past. I can’t help but to wonder
how long will it take to restore the city to the way it was before and to
prepare it for the next hurricane season.
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