Hurricane levels scores of homes
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TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Crashing waves and a powerful sea surge from Hurricane Paloma destroyed hundreds of homes along Cuba’s southern coast, but the storm rapidly weakened into a tropical depression.
State media said the late-season storm toppled a major communications tower, interrupted electricity and phone service and sent seawater almost a mile inland, ravaging a coastal community near where it made landfall.
No storm-related deaths were immediately reported.
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