Cuba
Hurricane Flora of October 1963 drifted across Cuba for four days, leading to extreme rainfall across the mountainous island country. During the heaviest 24 hour period of rainfall, 735 millimetres (28.9 in) of rain fell at Santiago de Cuba. Total amounts of 2,033 millimetres (80.0 in) over 4 days and 2,550 millimetres (100 in) over 5 days produced staggering loss of life in Cuba, where over 2000 perished.
| Wettest tropical cyclones in Cuba |
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| Precipitation | Storm | Location | Ref | ||
| Rank | mm | in | |||
| 1 | 2550 | 100.39 | Flora 1963 | ||
| 2 | 1092 | 42.99 | Dennis 2005 | ||
| 3 | 1025 | 40.34 | T.D. #1 1988 | ||
| 4 | 1012 | 39.84 | Alberto 1982 | ||
| 5 | 870 | 34.25 | Frederic 1979 | ||
| 6 | 849 | 33.43 | T.D. #1 1992 | ||
| 7 | 825 | 32.48 | Laura 1971 | ||
| 8 | 800 | 31.50 | Irene 1999 | ||
| 9 | 754 | 29.69 | Michelle 2001 | ||
| 10 | 747 | 29.41 | Lili 1996 | ||
Read more about this topic: List Of Wettest Tropical Cyclones By Country
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“Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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Charles Foster Kane: Yes—Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“Education is a necessity, it helps to understand life. Like that compagnero in Cuba who talked about politics, back when they were on strike. He knew many things, that hijo de puta, and he unraveled the most confusing situations in a marvelous way. You could see each point in front of you on the line of his reasoning like rinsed laundry set up to dry; he explained things to you so clearly that you could grasp it like a good hunk of bread with your hand.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)