After 24 hours, Category 5 hurricane Ivan, whose winds boast 150 miles per hour, left Cuba, particularly the hardest-hit westernmost province of Pinar del Rio, where the power grid is no longer functioning and two TV and radio towers had collapsed. Thankfully, the region's precious tobacco crop was unharmed, and the storm struck without a single loss of life, owing to the evacuation of less than 2 million Cubans in the storm zone. Cuban President Fidel Castro made a suprise visit on the day of the hurricane to a shelter in Pinar del Rio, where he stated that such hurricanes are to be a fact of life in the tropics, now that the process of global warming is a reality.