Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority

Seven months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still dealing with the fallout as it experienced an island-wide blackout on Wednesday.

This latest power outage follows a series of outages in the months since Maria. Just last week, half of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) customers lost power when a tree fell across a major power line. And in November 2017, San Juan and several other cities lost power at least twice due to a failure.

The entire electrical system in Puerto Rico collapses AGAIN! Back to September 20th@DavidBegnaud @leylasantiago @maddow @stephencolbertr

— Carmen Yulín Cruz (@CarmenYulinCruz) April 18, 2018 Read more…

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