Cuba's power grid suffers yet another collapse as Hurricane Oscar makes landfall | CBC News

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Cuba’s electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, as Hurricane Oscar makes landfall and threatens to wreak further havoc on the island’s decrepit infrastructure.Earlier on Sunday, Cuba had said it was making headway restoring service after multiple false starts, though millions of people remained without electricity more than two days after the grid’s initial collapse.”Restoration work began immediately,” the country’s energy and mines ministry said on X, formerly Twitter.Hurricane Oscar made landfall on the Caribbean island on Sunday, bringing strong winds, a powerful storm surge and rain to parts of eastern Cuba and threatening to further complicate the government’s efforts to re-establish service.Cuba’s meteorological survey warned of “an extremely dangerous situation” in eastern Cuba, while the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported winds of 120 km/h as the storm made its way across the island.”On the forecast track, the centre of Oscar is…

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