to prevent such an outage also failed. the subcontractor responsible for this blackout also caused yesterday's. and power officials say the company has been fired. that, of course, is going to set them back in terms of schedule. in february, most of northern puerto rico's power went out after an explosion and fire at an electrical substation. blackouts aside, some 40,000 customers don't even have power on a day-to-day basis as a result of the hurricane. maria destroyed up to 75% of all power distribution lines. and according to the u.s. census bureau, please listen to this, it's estimated that more than 3.3 million people live in puerto rico. that number is as of 2017. that is in the range of states like utah, iowa and connecticut. so just imagine, if these states had such unreliable power for their residents, it would be outrageous, ali. and factor this in, separate