Electricity returns to Havana as residents begin to clean up.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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Byline: Ruth Morris

HAVANA _ Residents laid damp shoes along balcony rails and squished the water out of old mattresses Tuesday, salvaging what little they could from Wilma's devastating storm surge.

Electricity was restored to most of Havana, and traffic lights began blinking to life as the city's coastal dwellers mopped up from the most extensive flooding to hit here in three decades. State-run restaurants were mostly closed in the touristy colonial district, and traffic was diverted from the debris-strewn Malecon...

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