About a third of Puerto Rico's residents —
over 900,000 — are still living without electricity five months after
Hurricane Maria battered the island on Sept. 20th of last year.
As power restoration efforts continue against
all odds, it's still hard for officials to say when the power will be
fully restored, the question on everyone's mind.
“I would hesitate to give you a date,” said
Lt. Col. John Cunningham of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the deputy
commander for the Task Force Power Restoration on the island. "We would
like to go faster, but right now we’re going as fast as we can."
"The largest challenge has been logistics:
getting the materials we need," Cunningham told NBC News. “Because it is
a tropical island, they need specific conductors and materials that can
resist the tropical weather and there’s a limited number of suppliers
available to purchase specific materials for the island."
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Source: NBC News
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