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For Cuba, The Task Of Cleaning Up After Hurricane Matthew Has Begun

A boy and a woman walk next to the remains of homes damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba.
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A boy and a woman walk next to the remains of homes damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba.

Rain fell across much of Cuba Thursday as the arduous task of recovering from Hurricane Matthew's devastating march across the island's easternmost tip cranked up.

In Baracoa, where some homes were reduced to tinder and the power grid was severely damaged, work brigades, communications crews and linesmen began arriving from Las Tunas, Camagüey and Guantànamo soon after high winds subsided on Wednesday. 

Members of the Cuban military also were helping remove boulders and other debris that made some roads impassable.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Cuba's eastern provinces were evacuated from low-lying areas and precarious dwellings, and no loss of life related to the hurricane has been reported so far.

For more, read the full story in The Miami Herald.

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Mimi Whitefield