{"id":525933,"date":"2022-09-29T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=525933"},"modified":"2022-09-29T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T07:57:41","slug":"cuba-without-electricity-after-hurricane-hammers-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cuba-without-electricity-after-hurricane-hammers-power-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba without electricity after hurricane hammers power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Ian knocked out power across all of Cuba and devastated some of the country&#8217;s most important tobacco farms when it slammed into the island&#8217;s western tip as a major hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba&#8217;s Electric Union on Tuesday said in a statement that work was underway to gradually restore service to the country&#8217;s 11 million people during the night. Power was initially knocked out to about 1 million people in Cuba&#8217;s western provinces, but later the entire grid collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Ian hit a Cuba that has been struggling with an economic crisis and has faced frequent power outages in recent months. It made landfall as a Category 3 storm on the island&#8217;s western end, devastating Pinar del R\u00edo province, where much of the tobacco used for Cuba&#8217;s iconic cigars is grown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Ian knocked out power across all of Cuba and devastated some of the country&#8217;s most important tobacco farms when it slammed into the island&#8217;s western tip as a major hurricane. Cuba&#8217;s Electric Union on Tuesday said in a statement that work was underway to gradually restore service to the country&#8217;s 11 million people during the night. Power was initially knocked out to about 1 million people in Cuba&#8217;s western provinces, but later the entire grid collapsed. Ian hit a Cuba that has been struggling with an economic crisis and has faced frequent power outages in recent months. It made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}