Lights Out, Cuba – IOTW Report

Lights Out, Cuba

Reuters

Cuba’s capital Havana plunged into darkness for a second night on Saturday as efforts to restore power proceeded in fits and starts, with setbacks slowing progress and leaving several million still without electricity across the island.

Cuba’s grid collapsed on Friday evening after a transmission line at a substation in Havana shorted, beginning a chain reaction that completely shut down power generation across the island, officials said.

The grid operator focused early efforts on ensuring electricity for vital services including hospitals, water supply and food production centers.

But by early Saturday night, neither of Cuba’s two largest power plants – Felton, in Holguin province, and Antonio Guiteras, in Matanzas – was generating electricity, leaving the majority of the island’s homes in the dark. More

6 Comments on Lights Out, Cuba

  1. There’s a video floating around out there, recent, of a Cuban woman wearing a Trump hat being verbally attacked by several pink haired things. “Trumps a Fascist”. Oh honey I’m from Cuba, let me explain a few things to your ignorant ass.
    If you stumble across it, it’s worth the watch.

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  2. Wife and I were on a cruise and passed Cuba at night (at least 10 years ago) and the island was dark except for Guantanamo.
    Really nothing new.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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