School is out and all non-essential work places ordered closed until Thursday after the island’s power grid collapsed.

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

Hurricane Oscar’s arrival to eastern Cuba Sunday impacted millions of residents already facing days without power, after fresh attempts to restore much of the nation’s electric grid failed. In the capital city of Havana early Monday,

Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, with a hurricane making landfall to compound the island's misery and threaten further havoc on its decrepit infrastructure.

Millions remain without power in Cuba for a third consecutive day as slow progress is made in restoring electricity following three major grid failures.