Havana, Cuban provinces see power restored; Tropical Storm Oscar leaves six dead
By Nelson Acosta
HAVANA, Oct 22 (Reuters) -Cuba made fast progress restoring power to swaths of the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday, both in Havana and outlying provinces, even as emergency and grid workers struggled to reach areas ravaged by Tropical Storm Oscar.
Oscar, which first made landfall near Baracoa as a Category 1 hurricane, was downgraded to a tropical storm, but not before wreaking havoc across much of eastern Cuba, knocking down powerlines, triggering mudslides and flooding rivers.
A violent flash flood nearly wiped out the small town of San Antonio del Sur in that province early on Monday, killing six, including a young child, authorities said.
Upwards of 10 inches (25 cm) of rain fell in many areas, swamping croplands, tipping over banana plants and dousing the region's coveted coffee crop.
Swaths of Guantanamo were still cut off by raging rivers and roads blocked by mudslides, complicating efforts to restore power and leaving many cut off from communications.
Cuban authorities said in mid-afternoon they had successfully stabilized the grid after several major failures since Friday, when Cuba's entire national electrical grid first crashed before Oscar's arrival, leaving 10 million people without electricity.
Upwards of 70% of Cuba had electricity on Tuesday, and officials said they expected several more power plants to come online shortly, boosting that total.
Cuba's grid operator said 90% of its clients in the capital Havana, largely unaffected by the passage of Oscar, had also seen their power restored by midday on Tuesday.
Cuba's oil-fired power plants, already obsolete and struggling to keep the lights on, reached a full crisis this year as oil imports from Venezuela, Russia and Mexico dwindled, culminating in last week's grid collapse.
Reporting by Nelson Acosta; Editing by Sandra Maler
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