Tropical Storm Oscar is making it harder to restore power in Cuba after a massive, prolonged power outage that preceded the storm. Oscar is hitting a key region for power generation where at least two important power plants in the city of Holguín Santiago de Cuba are located.

Hurricane Oscar crosses Cuba's eastern coast with winds and heavy rain as residents protest power and water outages.

Cubans in the eastern provinces of Holguín and Guantánamo braced for a direct hit by Hurricane Oscar on Sunday afternoon. As the Category 1 hurricane made landfall near Baracoa, a coastal in city in Guantánamo province, around 5:50 p.m., most of the country still had no power.

Many Cubans are waiting in anguish as electricity on much of the island has yet to be restored days after an island-wide blackout

Many Cubans waited in anguish Sunday as electricity on much of the island had yet to be restored days after an island-wide blackout. Their concerns were also raised as Hurricane Oscar made landfall in the southeastern Bahamas and was heading toward their country.

Tropical storm Oscar made landfall as a hurricane on Sunday evening in Cuba, where residents were preparing for more chaos and misery as the country grapples with a nearly nationwide

Cuba's power grid collapsed on Sunday evening for the fourth time in two days, plunging much of the island nation into darkness as Hurricane Oscar made landfall in eastern Cuba as a Category 1 storm.

In Cuba, the country's main power plant failed on Friday important thermal power station failed on Friday. Since then, the island's entire power grid has collapsed. The disaster was quickly followed by Hurricane Oscar on Sunday.