Cuba braces for Hurricane Rafael amid fallout from blackout and storm last month
by Agence France-Presse in Havana from World news | The Guardian on (#6S126)
More than 70,000 people reportedly evacuated and military mobilised with hurricane close to making landfall
Cuba is bracing for Hurricane Rafael, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday and compound the misery wrought by a recent blackout and Hurricane Oscar.
Early on Wednesday it was about 160 miles (260km) south-east of Havana and packing winds of 99mph (160km/h), making it a category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Five is the strongest.
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