Some Cubans have taken to the streets, to protest the three-day-long blackout -- many banging pots and pans and disrupting traffic
Many Cuba ns waited in anguish and some took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their third day. Hurricane Oscar 's arrival to eastern Cuba Sunday has impacted millions of residents already facing days without power, as fresh attempts to restore much of the nation's electric grid have failed.
"Through Wednesday morning, rainfall amounts of 6 to 12 inches with isolated amounts of 18 inches are expected across eastern Cuba," the NHC said, adding that as much as 8 inches of rain will appear in isolated amounts in the southeast Bahamas. . In Havana, residents waited for hours to buy a few loaves from the handful of locations selling bread in the capital. When the bread sold out, several people argued angrily that they had been skipped in line.
One foreign visitor told CNN that Havana's José Martí International Airport was operating in the dark on emergency power only, adding that printers did not work to issue tickets and there was no air conditioning in the terminal.
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