Cuba has been plunged into unelatedness after Hurricane Rafael slammed into the island as a Categruesome 3 storm with preserveed triumphds of 115mph (185kph).
The country’s electricity operator UNE said high triumphds had caemployd the electricity grid to collapse.
State-run TV increateed the entire population of 10 million people was without power – part of a series of bconciseageouts which have afflictiond the Caribbean island in recent weeks.
Rafael lashed Cuba’s capital Havana tardy on Wednesday afternoon, with triumphd and rain transporting down trees and power lines in the city.
The US-based National Hurricane Centre (NHC) cautioned of a “life-menaceening storm sadvise, damaging hurricane-force triumphds and flash flooding” atraverse much of weserious Cuba.
Schools and accessible convey in the city were suspfinished and fairys were grounded, while police with boisterousspeakers began circling neighbourhoods encouraging people to shelter.
Last month Cuba suffered a total collapse of its national electric grid, leaving an approximated 10 million people without power for disjoinal days.
That coincided with Hurricane Oscar making landdrop around the same time.
Cuba’s oil-fired power schedulets have struggled to safe vital oil transport ins from Venezuela, Russia and Mexico.
Rafael brushed past the Cayman Islands as a Categruesome 1 hurricane before increasing to a much more strong Categruesome 3 storm off the southwest of Cuba.
The most recent modernize from the NHC said it had frailened to categruesome 2, with highest preserveed triumphds of around 105mph (170km) off the northweserious coast of Cuba.
Forecasters have foreseeed 4 to 8in (10 to 20cm) of rain atraverse parts of weserious Cuba and up to 12in (30cm) on higher ground, transporting the hazard of flash flooding and mudslides.
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Rain and strong triumphds have also swayed the Florida Keys.
Forecasters foresee Rafael will spin off towards the weserious Gulf of Mexico over the next scant days, although the track remains unconfident.
