Cuban Tobacco Growers Take Storm in Stride

(MSNBC) ... In Pinar del Rio, where the premium tobacco for Cuba's world-famous cigars is grown, most residents took the storm in stride.
Growers had planned to begin planting Tuesday for next year's harvest, though many likely held off due to the storm.
"The rains have not been as intense as we had expected," Aliuska Banos, 28, told The Associated Press by telephone Thursday from the town of Sandino, along the extreme west of the island. Continued