Artemisa [Cuba], November 8: Cuban authorities said they had begun restoring power to the eastern half of the island on Thursday, a day after Hurricane Rafael knocked out the country's electrical grid, leaving 10 million people in the dark.
According to Reuters, the grid collapsed on Wednesday as Rafael tore across Cuba with top winds of more than 115 mph (185 kph), damaging homes, uprooting trees and toppling telephone poles.
The hurricane had spun off westward into the Gulf of Mexico where it no longer posed an immediate threat to land, the Miami-based US National Hurricane Centre said.
Source: Emirates News Agency
