{"id":654329,"date":"2025-11-28T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=654329"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:57:04","slug":"thousands-of-cubans-struggle-without-power-water-nearly-a-month-after-hurricane-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thousands-of-cubans-struggle-without-power-water-nearly-a-month-after-hurricane-melissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Cubans struggle without power, water nearly a month after Hurricane Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Cubans remain without power, water or proper shelter almost a month after Hurricane Melissa pummelled the island\u2019s eastern region as one of the strongest Atlantic storms in history. <\/p>\n<p>By day, families walk toward the nearest river to fill plastic containers with water and by night, they squeeze together to sleep under temporary shelters and tents. \u201cWe lost everything in the flood,\u201d 80-year-old Luc\u00eda Garc\u00eda said. \u201cI am very depressed and very sad.\u201d Garc\u00eda is living in a small classroom with her two sons, ages 45 and 55, and her ailing 81-year-old husband, who remains bedridden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Cubans remain without power, water or proper shelter almost a month after Hurricane Melissa pummelled the island\u2019s eastern region as one of the strongest Atlantic storms in history. By day, families walk toward the nearest river to fill plastic containers with water and by night, they squeeze together to sleep under temporary shelters and tents. \u201cWe lost everything in the flood,\u201d 80-year-old Luc\u00eda Garc\u00eda said. \u201cI am very depressed and very sad.\u201d Garc\u00eda is living in a small classroom with her two sons, ages 45 and 55, and her ailing 81-year-old husband, who remains bedridden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}