Hurricane Rafael blew through western Cuba on Wednesday night, flooding streets, damaging buildings and plunging millions of people into darkness. The country’s national power company, Unión Eléctrica, said that strong winds had caused the blackout.

Hurricane Rafael pulled away from Cuba Thursday morning after slamming into the island as a Category 3 hurricane and taking down its power grid. A significant shift in the storm’s forecast track means the threat to the US is dwindling,

Cuban authorities struggled to return power to the island on Thursday morning after Hurricane Rafael knocked out the country`s electrical grid, leaving 10 million people in the dark.  The grid collapsed on Wednesday afternoon as Rafael tore across Cuba with top winds of 115 mph (185 kph),