Hurricane Irma barreled through swaths of northern Cuba this weekend on its march toward Florida, ripping off roofs, knocking down power lines and dealing blow after blow to the island’s fragile infrastructure. Thousands of tourists were evacuated from Cuba’s popular beach resorts as Irma sawed through the island’s northern coast as a powerful Category 5 hurricane, pummeling the coastline with 160-mph winds and a 10-foot storm surge. The provinces of Matanzas, Villa Clara, Camaguey and Sancti Spiritus took the brunt of the storm, with collapsed homes and streets clogged with debris. The Cuban capital of Havana took on lashing rains and some flooding.
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