Cuba entered a third day without electricity after another outage Saturday evening set back efforts to restore power on the island, underscoring the challenges posed by decades-old, poorly maintained infrastructure.

Many Cubans waited in anguish Sunday as electricity on much of the island had yet to be restored days after an island-wide blackout. Their concerns were also raised as Hurricane Oscar made landfall in the southeastern Bahamas and was heading toward their country.

Cuba said it was making headway restoring power on Sunday after multiple false starts, though millions of people remain without electricity more than two days after the grid's initial collapse. The clock was ticking as Hurricane Oscar bore down on the Caribbean island on Sunday,