Hundreds of reports coming from Cuba and surrounding areas like Gallina came in as early as 4 a.m. "Due to the heavy wet snow, there was an outage on our transmission line, which affected approximately 3,300 people," said Joseph Sanchez, the general manager of Jemez Mountain Electrical Cooperative.

Two strong earthquakes struck Cuba's southeastern region just days after Hurricane Rafael, further impairing the country's recovery efforts and causing more destruction.