Last weekend, Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico.

And the island went dark.

The island reeling after a direct hit from Hurricane Fiona.

The sustained winds of 85 miles per hour, knocking down trees and paralyzed.

The entire island archipelago of Puerto Rico is without electricity.

Flunging the entire American territory into a blackout.

Because of this morning, most of the island still doesn't have power.

There's definitely a sense of deja vu.

That's our colleague, Andrew Scuria.

It's deja vu because Puerto Ricans have been dealing with problems with their electricity

for years.

After Hurricane Maria hit in 2017 and left some residents without power for almost a year,

the government there made big changes to the power system.

And the hopes that such blackouts wouldn't happen again.

The fact that it's happening again is fueling a lot of kind of resignation, I would say,

but also a good deal of popular anger.

After Maria, Puerto Rico's government decided to privatize management of its electrical

grid.

And last year, it brought in a company called Luma.

But things haven't been going well.

Even before this most recent storm, there were power outages across the island every day.

People are asking the question of what happened in the last five years, how did we not see

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