327- A Year in the Dark




99% Invisible show

Summary: Early on the morning of September 20th, 2017, a category four hurricane named Maria hit the island of Puerto Rico. It was a beast of a hurricane -- the strongest one to hit the island since 1932. Daniel Alarcon went down to Puerto Rico to report on the aftermath of the storm. He wrote a piece for Wired about the almost year-long struggle to get power working on the island, and the utility worker who became a Puerto Rican folk hero. <a href="https://99percentinvisible.org/?p=27284&amp;post_type=episode" target="_blank">A Year in the Dark</a>