Havana braced for floods after Hurricane Irma

Waves crash against the seafront boulevard El Malecon ahead of the passing of Hurricane Irma, in Havana, Cuba September 9, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer
“This is a beautiful town but now it is a disaster”
By Marc Frank and Sarah Marsh
HAVANA/CAIBARIEN – (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma uprooted trees and tore off roofs in Cuba on Saturday with 125-mile-per-hour (200-km per hour) winds that damaged hotels in the island’s best-known beach resorts and forced evacuations as far alon