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

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."

There are some customers living in the El Yunque rainforest that are still without power, but PREPA must wait for the Forest Service to approve the installation of poles. Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 4 that decimated Puerto Rico's electrical grid, resulting in the longest blackout in American history.

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