Hurricane Oscar landfall in Cuba

Hurricane Oscar made landfall in the southwest Bahamas early yesterday and was bearing down on Cuba, where it is expected to make a second landfall. A hurricane warning is in effect for the north coast of the Cuban provinces of Holguin and Guantanamo to Punta Maisi.

The arrival of the hurricane will still further complicate life for Cuba’s 10 million residents, who have been dealing



with a complete failure of its antiquated power grid all weekend. Cuba’s essential services are running on generators.

Hurricane Oscar was named as a tropical storm early Saturday and by mid-afternoon was upgraded to a hurricane by the National Hurricane Center with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, moving west-southwest at 7 mph.