The youngsters surpassing now 40 years of age had never experienced such bitter, bleak and sad experience as the strong attacks which, in step, let the winds of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 by the province of Santiago de Cuba and in particularly in Palma Soriano.
The "woodcutter" a qualifier Sandy received from the Santiago popular voice, certainly wiped out much material object founded in its way , especially with trees and plants, to the point of not letting almost, up to any bush and of course their foliage .
And while on the one hand the landscape in the last months of that year was devastating, yet in 2013 it kept that way as so many downed trees were t classified as high-value timber.
Following this, some articles on the circumstances, as the result of painstaking research of the local press arrived at the conclusion that about 90% of the tree of Santiago de Cuba were totally destroyed and for this new sustainable reforestation programs were screened, resulting in CITMA specialists Forest Company and make themselves the task of immediate and efficient study of planting those species of plants that could be lasting, beautiful for its foliage, functional in urban environments and, moreover, to harmonize in it.
Today in Palma Soriano in this sense the landscape has changed, as in Santiago de Cuba, after returning the towns affected by Hurricane Sandy the look of a garden city.