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It is the island's third major storm of the year. It had grown to a Category 4 with 145-mph winds while barging through the wealthy Cayman Islands, where it ripped roofs off houses and storm shelters and flooded streets, before heading to Cuba. But it came ashore in Cuba on Saturday as a Category 3 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale, and weakened further to a Category 2 with top sustained winds near 100 mph by 1 a.m. EST as it crossed the island and headed toward the Atlantic, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. They expected Paloma to continue weakening over the next day or two, even after it moved off Cuba's coast and headed toward the Bahamas. Cuban state-run television reported widespread blackouts and said a communications tower had fallen in the province of Camaguey, where Paloma made landfall on Saturday evening near the town of Santa Cruz del Sur. Rains of up 10 inches were predicted, with more possible in mountainous areas, the hurricane center said. A storm surge up to 20 feet had caused coastal flooding, pushing the sea as much as 2,300 feet inland and flooding hundreds of homes. Television reports showed waves whipped up over coastal barriers, a beached boat listing on its side and, on shore, trees bending in the wind. "The weather is really bad. It's raining heavily and the wind is blowing strong," said Mirtha, who was on watch in the Communist Party headquarters in Santa Cruz del Sur. "I almost cannot open the windows but I can see some small palm trees that have fallen over," she said, declining to give her full name. Paloma, the eighth hurricane of a busy 2008 Atlantic storm season, came on the heels of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which caused an estimated $8 billion in damage when they devastated Cuba within 10 days of each other in August and September. Paloma was the second most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the month of November and struck almost 76 years to the day after a cyclone killed 3,000 in the same part of Cuba. NO DEATHS Cuba said more than a million people were evacuated as Paloma approached. So far, no deaths or injuries had been reported, but the storm promised to set back recovery efforts from Ike, which rampaged across much of the country. "It's been such an effort to repair what Ike destroyed and now Paloma may knock it all down again. It's as if you finally dug yourself out of a hole in the ground and were pushed right back in," construction worker Orlando Estrada said in Holguin. Continued... 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