Puerto Rico is without power after Hurricane Fiona threatens to cause ‘catastrophic flooding’

The US territory is again in power crisis, almost five years after Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico without electricity. On Sunday, LUMA Energy, the company that operates the island’s electrical grid, announced that all of Puerto Rico had suffered a blackout due to Hurricane Fiona, reports Reuters.

With the storm nearing the island’s southwest coast, the National Hurricane Center warned of “catastrophic” floodingFiona was producing winds of up to 85 miles per hour when she made landfall. Even before making landfall at 3:20PM local time, the storm left a third of LUMA’s customers without power. On Twitter, Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi said the government was working to restore power, but after the events of five years ago, there’s worry there won’t be an easy fix.

2017 Hurricane Maria was the cause of The largest blackout in US historyPuerto Rico was hit hard by a Category 5 hurricane, which left 3.4 million people without electricity. It had just recently started to rebuild its infrastructure. In some areas, blackouts were a daily occurrence. Officials have tried to stress that Hurricane Fiona won’t bring a repeat of 2017. “This is not Maria, this hurricane will not be Maria,” Abner Gomez, the head of public safety and crisis management at LUMA Energy, CNN before Sunday’s power outage. The company estimates that it will take several days to restore power and asks customers to be patient while it responds to the natural disaster.