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


Millions of people were already without electricity before the storm.

A motorcycle lights a street under pouring rain during a nationwide blackout caused by a grid failure in Havana, on October 19, 2024. The storm creates “an additional inconvenience,” the Associated Press reports Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy saying in a news conference. Heavy rainfall is expected to trigger “life-threatening flash flooding along with mudslides across portions of eastern Cuba, especially within the Sierra Maestra” through midweek, according to the US National Hurricane Center.

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