Hurricanes have wreaked havoc on cigar countries throughout history

(Cigar Aficionado) ... Hurricanes have wreaked havoc on cigar countries throughout history, and tobacco growers typically avoid planting during hurricane season to avoid catastrophe. Hurricane Mitch killed some 11,000 people in Central America-primarily in Honduras and Nicaragua-and swept away roads, bridges, tobacco barns and even entire fields in October 1998. Hurricane Gilbert destroyed the Royal Jamaica cigar factory in Jamaica in September 1988. In August 2008, Hurricane Gustav, the most powerful storm to strike Cuba in five decades, swept across Cuba's famed Pinar del Río tobacco growing region in, collapsing thousands of tobacco curing barns with wind gusts as strong as 200 mph. Continued