Residents pass the time during a massive blackout after a major power plant failed in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) A man looks at his phone during a massive blackout after a major power plant failed in Havana,

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.

Fidel Castro once called Cuba’s power plants “prehistoric.” But the country still relies on them, contributing to the longest blackout since the collapse of its former patron, the Soviet Union.

Many Cubans waited in anguish and some took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their third day

Cuba's electrical grid collapsed for the fourth time in 48 hours, leading to widespread blackouts and small protests. The situation was compounded by Tropical Storm Oscar, prompting the government to cancel school through Wednesday.

Tropical Storm Oscar doused Cuba on Monday, three days after a massive power failure plunged more than 10 million people into the dark as the island worked to restore its decades-old power grid.

Cuba’s government says some electricity has been restored on the island after one of the country’s major power plants failed and left millions without electricity in an outage that started two days earlier.

The Cuban government had just announced emergency measures to reduce electricity use — then the power went out across the entire nation.

Cars drive on Havana's seafront boulevard Malecon as the country's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, according to Cuba's energy and mines ministry, in the latest setback to the government's efforts to restore power to the island,

Photos emerging from Cuba show not only the unrest, but residents continuing to lives their lives even amid the indefinite power outages.