Officials in Puerto Rico say power has finally been restored to all customers

A person works on restoring power in Puerto Rico.
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It's been almost one year since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, and on Tuesday, 100 percent of customers who lost power because of the storm have electricity again.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) told ABC News it had restored electricity on Tuesday to the last two families that needed it, in Ponce. To help these people, "we spent more than two weeks working to make roads and excavators bringing and raising electrical poles, doing all the preparation," engineer Carlos Alvarado told ABC News. "And today, the aerial operations unit to bring electrical cables."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.