SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Crews worked early Thursday to restore power to Puerto Rico after a blackout that hit the entire island affected the main international airport, hospitals and hotels filled with Easter vacationers.
The outage that began past noon Wednesday left 1.4 million customers without electricity and more than 400,000 without water. More than 742,600 customers, or 51%, had power back by Thursday morning, while 83% of customers had water restored. Officials expected 90% of customers to have power back within 48 to 72 hours after the outage.
“This is a shame for the people of Puerto Rico that we have a problem of this magnitude,” said Gov.
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