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Tropical Storm Oscar is making Cuba’s nationwide power outage even worse

A motorcycle drives along a city street under pouring rain.
A motorcycle lights a street under pouring rain during a nationwide blackout caused by a grid failure in Havana, on October 19, 2024. | Photo: Getty Images

Tropical Storm Oscar is making it harder to restore power in Cuba after a massive, prolonged power outage that preceded the storm.

The nation’s power grid failed on Friday after Cuba’s largest power plant went offline, leaving more than 10 million people without electricity. The grid reportedly collapsed four more times before Oscar made landfall as a Category 1 storm on Sunday evening.

Oscar is hitting a key region for power generation where at least two important power plants in the city of Holguín Santiago de Cuba are located. The storm creates “an additional inconvenience,” the Associated Press reports Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy saying in a news conference. The storm is still barreling through Cuba today, posing new dangers…

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