{"id":26049,"date":"2025-10-30T03:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26049\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:03:36","slug":"hurricane-melissa-hits-cuba-stirs-concern-in-miamis-little-havana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26049\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba, stirs concern in Miami\u2019s Little Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba, stirs concern in Miami\u2019s Little Havana <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LITTLE HAVANA, Fla. \u2014 Hurricane Melissa slammed into eastern Cuba on Wednesday, leaving behind widespread flooding, power outages and heavy damage \u2014 and sparking concern among Cuban Americans in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The storm struck near Santiago de Cuba, where aging infrastructure made the destruction worse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cVery worried, yeah, because it never happened before \u2014 so strong, very strong,\u201d said Miami resident Juan Guerra, whose daughter still lives on the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Videos from the region showed flooded streets and collapsed homes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI feel bad for all the Cubans,\u201d one man said in Spanish. \u201cThat\u2019s our people, and I hope Jesus Christ looks after them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In Miami\u2019s Little Havana neighborhood, many shared the same worries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am very sorry for them,\u201d said Sylvia Figueroa. \u201cI am Cuban, and I feel for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Figueroa compared the storm to Hurricane Maria, which left her without power for months. Guerra fears a long recovery ahead for Cuba, citing constant blackouts and food shortages. \u201cNo food, no medicine \u2014 it\u2019s very, very sad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Terrell Forney\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/7b28e33c-d75f-4d1a-87.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Terrell Forney<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba, stirs concern in Miami\u2019s Little Havana LITTLE HAVANA,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-26049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}