Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2008-09-02
Author: Michael Voss BBC News, Havana
Intro: There are no figures yet as to the cost of the damage from Hurricane Gustav . . .
Pinar del Rio is a mainly rural area with little industry apart from its famous tobacco fields.
The harvest was already in but the valuable leaves were being cured in flimsy thatched wooden sheds.
They were desperately trying to move half a million sacks of leaves to safer places before Gustav arrived.
But almost 1,000 tonnes of tobacco leaves still got soaked in the rain.
The price and availability of Cuban cigars could be another casualty of Hurricane Gustav.
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