News brief

Cat 3 hurricane plows Cuba. Hurricane Rafael pushed into the Gulf of Mexico the night of Nov. 6 after churning across western Cuba as a Category 3 with winds so powerful it knocked out the entire country’s power grid. Forecasters warn that Rafael could bring “life-threatening” storm surges, winds, and flash floods to western swaths of the island, after knocking out power and dumping rain on the Cayman Islands and Jamaica. The storm is especially hard for Cuba, which is struggling with devastating blackouts and recovering from another hurricane two weeks ago.

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