Blackout in hurricane-stricken Cuba - Swedish Ludvig: "Long bread lines"
Emil Forsberg
Published 2024-10-21 23.10
Hurricane Oscar hits Cuba, which has power outages in large parts of the country.
Now the residents are protesting by banging on pans and stopping traffic.
- You can feel the atmosphere in town, says Swede Ludvig Wassgren, 29.
Millions of residents are without power after Hurricane Oscar moved into eastern Cuba.
And attempts to restore it have failed, writes CNN.
On Monday morning, Havana residents were seen drifting around the blacked-out city playing dominoes to kill time. School classes have been canceled and children are also sleeping outside to cool off from the stifling heat.
Swedish Ludvig Wassgren, who lives in Havana, says that the hurricane did not physically hit the capital, but that it suffered from other problems.
- The queues are long at the shops, both the private ones and those run by the government. It is difficult to find bread and certain foodstuffs, you can tell by the atmosphere in the town. There are a little more people out on the streets running around trying to solve problems, he says.
When Aftonbladet gets hold of him, he has just got the power back after a three-day interruption and celebrated by eating food and making coffee.
But the electricity going out is nothing unusual, he says.
- Havana has fared better than the other parts of the country as the regime is keen to keep it neat and fresh. We have
so some neighborhoods have power, but not others. But we have that almost twice a week, otherwise also due to oil shortages.
The hurricane has now decreased in strength and is expected to continue towards the Bahamas, according to CNN.
- It's a bit windy, like a windy day in Gothenburg where I come from. You notice that the waves hit a bit like during Milton and Helene, but we don't have hurricane winds so there is no danger at all, says Ludvig Wassgren.
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