at puerto rico's struggles one year off. >> reporter: clarissa ramos has to do this. every time it rains neighbors fill holes in the road to make what little maria left passable. even if narrowly. >> this is the little road that we got. we just put dirt here. look. >> reporter: after maria, puerto rico says only 2% of the island's roads were passable because of debris and land slides. but of course for clarissa hurricane maria took away much more than a road. the storm stole her way of life. >> you can't talk about maria without shedding a tear. why? >> it's my first time i lived through something like that. >> reporter: it would take nine months for hundreds of families here to have powered restored. 11 months for the entire power grid, and some communities are still on generators.