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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Ruth Morris
LA COLOMA, Cuba _ Traveling by tractor, horse-drawn cart and dented Chevys, thousands of Cubans abandoned flimsy homes in low-lying provinces Thursday and made their way to shelters, while others prepared for Wilma's arrival.
Authorities said they have evacuated nearly 222,571 residents, many from coastal areas along Cuba's western tip. The entire fishing town of La Coloma in the Pinar del Rio province packed bread, cookies and clothing into gunnysacks and waited on curbs for government buses to take them to safety.
At one apartment complex, neighbors pushed a screeching pig up a stairwell to the second...
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