Crews shut down generators Wednesday that have powered an island off Puerto Rico’s coast — the last customers to be reconnected to the U.S. territory’s main power system 18 months after Hurricane Maria destroyed the grid.
The Electric Power Authority said it connected an underwater cable to Culebra despite wariness from the more than 1,000 people who live on the island, which is popular with tourists.
“One year and six months relying solely on a generator that if the gasoline runs out, we don’t have power,” said Culebra resident Grace Monel, adding that people were hit . . .
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