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Puerto Rico ' 100% without power Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosello said Maria

is the most devastating storm to hit the island a century if not in modern

history the islands energy grid took such a severe blow from Maria that

restoring power to everyone may take months he told CNN the u.s. territory

has been through a long recession and is deeply in debt and has a state-owned

power grid that is a little bit hold mishandled and weak Ross Ellet old

Anderson Cooper 360 dot it depends on the damage to the infrastructure he said

I'm afraid it's probably going to be severe if it is we're looking at months

as opposed to weeks or days retired Army veteran manuel torres

called the devastation of maria the worst he'd ever seen his mother's house

in la perla an oceanfront community in Old San Juan was completely destroyed

emerging after the storm had passed Torres found their three-story home

reduced to two storeys and was missing a roof angela Magana a UFC fighter who

lives in the area said neighbors were helping each are there we need clean up

water food and generators she told CNN there are a lot of old people here who

are going without necessities we need to rebuild and restructure and we need

prayers any kind of help we can get because it's a mess right now

while the wind's have subsided as the hurricane continues to move to the

northwest continued heavy rain in the mountainous country means there is still

heavy flooding the National Weather Service in San Juan tweeted in the early

hours of Thursday that the island is now completely under a flash flood warning

if possible move to higher ground now The Weather Service also tweeted

catastrophic flash flooding continues with multiple flash flood the islands

airports are closed until Friday if not Saturday CNN's Derek van damme said

bending proper inspection u.s. President Donald Trump sent a message to Rosello

via his verify Twitter account saying the US government is with you and the

people of Puerto stay safe Dominica nation in survival

mode at least 14 people are dead after the hurricane barreled through the

island nation and many of those who survived have gone into survival mode

Charles Jalan a spokesman for in Dominica Prime Minister's office told

CNN Zhang said he had exhausted his supplies of food and water and that

there was widespread looting on the island the spokesman said he has been

through hurricanes Hugo Gilbert Lenny and many others in st. Kitts

but being in Dominica for Marya was the most horrifying experience Zhang said

the islands Prime Minister Roosevelt's carrot is homeless and is bunking up in

an area called Street drool meant he added that starett is considering moving

into the State House where the president lives for the island 73,000 residents

there are urgent needs for water food and medical equipment the need is great

Fillmore Mullen head of Antigua and Barbuda national office of disaster

services said damage is severe and widespread we know of casualties but not

in detail we've heard of many missing but we just don't know much at the

moment a flight Wednesday over the island nation revealed that the storms

show no mercy CNN saw thousands of trees snapped and

strewn across the landscape the island stripped of vegetation CNN also saw

evidence of dozens of landslides although not in population centers the

usually blue-green seas and many places are now a muddy brown from the earth

swept down hillsides and into the water

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Let's Play The Long Dark Story Mode - Part 19 (Blind) - Duration: 47:06.

Let's Play The Long Dark Story Mode - Wintermute - Blind

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Hurricane Maria Leaves Puerto Rico In The Dark - Duration: 3:36.

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'Keep Posting Information': Puerto Rico Residents In The Dark After Maria Strikes - Duration: 4:39.

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Build of the Week: Dark Pact Necromancer - Duration: 3:25.

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Hurricane Maria Leaves Puerto Rico Dark, Knocking Out All Power To Island | TODAY - Duration: 2:48.

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FESTIVAL VLOG + GETTING PIERCED 3 TIMES - BAROEG OPEN AIR 2017 | My Dark Alternative Life - Duration: 12:55.

I feel awkward now because you guys are so quite

Talk a little

Hello you guys and happy Wednesday, so today's video is going to be the vlog of the Baroeg Open Air 2017 festival

I'm so excited, I'm looking forward to the music, the people, the little shops, basically everything

So, let's go!

Also check out my 'get ready with me' video which will be linked right there or there

We're walking around some of the shops right now, I mean, these clothes are amazing

This is so much fun: I just came past the people I met last year and I don't know if you guys remembered but I'm going to insert some pictures because we took some pictures together

And, I don't know, they're so sweet and they make me so happy so you will see that now

Say hiiiii

Well I just received this metal bible, but that's not important

What's important is that my best friend is going to get a piercing and I'm going to be recording that so hang on

We headed to the shopping mall and we bought some food because we are very hungry and I got a slushpuppy and some chicken filet stuff with (peanut sauce)

I don't know how to say that in English

But I'm going to show it now and after this we're heading back and hopefully we're going to see some great bands

So, my friends are going to get some piercings now and I'm going to be recording it all

Unfortunately I'm not going to get a piercing but you will see them, so enjoy watching

We are ready for Asphyx

We just saw Asphyx and to be honest, when the show started, I already had beer poured all over me

And we were in the middle in the front so I have some great shots

It was amazing, the band is such a great band, it's old death metal I think

It was amazing and I sang along to some of the songs and I enjoyed the show so much

Now we're heading to the shopping mall again to have some drinks because my throat is so dry because I sang along so hard

And we're going to eat something

Here we are at the Mc Donald's because it's the only place that's still open

It's getting dark now but I bought some patches and a t-shirt and I will be showing them in the screen right now

I bought some Avenged Sevenfold, Asking Alexandria, Amon Amarth

Well my friends left because they had some issues so I'm going to see Destruction all by myself but that's fine, so let's go

Well of course Destruction was amazing, you guys have seen the clips

That was the last band I'm going to see today and now I'm heading home

Say hiiii!

Well that was it for today's video, I hope you guys enjoyed today's vlog

Don't forget to subscribe to my channel to not miss out on any of my other videos and I will see you guys in the next video

I love you and Stay Creepy!

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Dunkin' Donuts Dark Roast Coffee Review - Duration: 7:03.

hey welcome to Coffee Coffee Coffee your place for average Joe coffee reviews I

just kind of noticed that I don't like this chair especially for these yeah

videos--they're kind of reclined-- maybe too relaxed for people-- well it doesn't even feel relaxed I feel tense

I feel tense too now so to get over our tensitive-ness we are reviewing the

coffee yes and what is it it is Dunkin Donuts Dunkin Dark which is

their dark roast simple as that it's so easy nothing to

explain like the last one with that weird Turbo espresso shot thing--right

yeah yeah but so tell us anything that you found out about Dunkin

Donuts coffee or prices well first of all we should tell the price in case

people don't watch the other review I don't remember yeah it was $6.49 for

this 11 ounce bag and which comes out to nine dollars and forty four cents a

pound which is you know on the higher end of things not the cheapest not the most

expensive but still we got ours at Publix for that price it was like on a

not buy one get one but just like it had some it was just cheaper than normal

sale it was right that's what that's called it was called a sale yeah

and here's a fun fact about Dunkin Donuts yes they they sell 1.7 billion

cups of coffee every year 1.7 billion--that's a lot of coffee-- how many donuts do they sell oh I have no

idea I just was interested in that but yeah anyway founded in Quincy

Massachusetts birthplace of John Quincy Adams John Adams and John Hancock

interesting it's a suburb suburb saburb of Boston I looked it up because I was curious (in Bostonian accent) Harvard it's near Harvard

Harvard Park you car in Harvard yard yeah that's right so Dunkies--Dunkies-- they

don't sell to a lot of people then they do no no no one point something billion

cups of coffee yeah it's a lot of coffee yeah but there's 7 billion people and

the people who drink coffee drink it every day that's true but they're having

to compete with Starbucks and they sell a lot of donuts anyway I think they do a

fine job but the question is this coffee because this is different than

like what they're selling in the store this is the home brew type of thing so we

should try it and then we've been drinking it for all week tell you what

we think our bags getting low so I have thoughts would you like me to go first

or do you want to go first I'll go first such a gentleman my my favorite thing

about this coffee is that the bag is almost empty oh my gosh I'm so sad because I

love this coffee--no way-- yes I do--oh how are we going to do the table--oh no we're going to have to make a she recommends he doesn't recommend --it's like this is the first never happened I just don't really oh

man I love it it's probably just my overall mood yeah maybe I've been you know the hurricane and

everything--yeah still trying to get back to normal--still sleeping on the floor yeah we our mattress it was ruined

we had to yeah get a new one finally got it yesterday

yeah Tuft and Needle but okay so what do you not like about the coffee

cuz I'm stunned still I don't know I just didn't like it you just don't like it well okay

well just it doesn't it wasn't it was like ah ah I judge it's hard for me to

you know say about uh the flavor of something but I judge whether or not I

like a coffee if it's easy for me to get to the bottom of the bottom and this one

is just not easy for me to get to the bottom of the mug sometimes I'm just like--I'm heartbroken--I thought this is

gonna be our coffee no I think still the Fourth Avenue Fourth Street

something--Bistro?-- Seattle's Best--oh that's not my favorite no but it was

one that we both--for the price--yeah it was $4.50 okay okay so here's what I love

about oh and this is rainforest certified I didn't realize that

Oh 30% of it is the rest of it is not is the devil yeah but no okay so

here's what I love about this coffee first of all I could tell an immediate

difference between this coffee and the other coffee like the first day you

brought it to me I was like I didn't say it out loud because we try to keep that secret

between us but it was chocolatey it was rich it was delicious

buy this coffee it's so good maybe because I'm older I and your taste buds

are kind of kicking the bucket that's what I'm saying but they're just kind of

because it just tasted kind of like blah yeah I think it's very rich I don't know

what happened that's funny because we have agreed on almost everything right I

mean yeah but well there you go we will have to update the table with a he would buy it

again she would not right and whoever controls

the purse strings and you know why they call that purse strings--right--because the woman controls it

would you stop it's not true yeah so anything else to add about this subpar coffee it is delicious and you

should buy it immediately it's totally worth the money I think yeah I mean

because it's you know it's less than ten dollars a bag so you know--a pound--I mean okay

I'm sorry per pound so yeah I think it's good yeah

I recommend it no we're gonna have to disagree on it and then make an update

to the table yep so you'll see that the table changes if you go back there and

you'll find out what we've done differently right

and yeah yeah else about it I think that's it okay well if you have a coffee

that I like yeah or will like and thanks for your recommendations we've

gotten several recommendations on coffee we should try like Chock-Full O'Nuts

this one although we've tried that a long time

but not since we've not reviewed it on here and then also there was like a

Kicking Horse Coffee and there was one other one

do you remember Dead Million something there's another one but anyway thanks

for the suggestions keep them coming because we definitely want to know what

you guys want us to try yes and along with your suggestions--he's going to ask you to send us coffee-- yeah we offer you

thanks okay okay yeah okay so find us on Facebook Instagram YouTube

at Coffee Coffee Coffee Show and on our website at coffeecoffeecoffeeshow.com

where you can find that table that we mentioned that has all the coffees that

we have reviewed and then like an outline along with them and then we're

gonna add in that new column for he-said she-said

yep there you go just pay attention to the he said she said ok good yep happy

drinking that doesn't sound right

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Hurricane Maria Strikes, and Puerto Rico Goes Dark - Duration: 7:11.

Hurricane Maria Strikes, and Puerto Rico Goes Dark

By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ and ANEMONA HARTOCOLLISSEPT. 20, 2017

SAN JUAN, P.R. — Hurricane Maria, the most powerful storm to make a direct hit on Puerto Rico in almost a century, ravaged the island on Wednesday, knocking out all electricity,

deluging towns with flashfloods and mudslides and compounding the already considerable pain of residents here.

Less than two weeks ago, Hurricane Irma dealt the island a glancing blow, killing at least three people and leaving nearly 70 percent of households without power.

This storm, which made landfall at 6 a.m. as a Category 4 hurricane, took out the island's entire power grid,

and only added to the woes of a commonwealth that has been groaning under the weight of an extended debt and bankruptcy crisis.

Beyond the immediate damage from winds up to 155 miles per hour, continuous rain flooded coastal communities as well as neighborhoods in the central,

mountainous areas of the island, which is full of rivers and streams. One person was reported dead,

though the power failure has largely cut off communication with some of the worst-hit areas.

Residents woke Wednesday to the clamor of strengthening wind gusts, with the memory of Hurricane Irma still fresh. By afternoon, the whole island had lost electricity. "There has been nothing like this," said Ramón Lopez, a military veteran who was holding back tears outside his

neighborhood in Guaynabo, on the northern coast near San Juan, the capital. "It was the fury. It didn't stop."

Such was the sentiment across the island as the barrage of howling gusts and pounding rain did not cease from the early morning until evening.

Francisco Ramirez, 23, weathered the storm inside the convenience store of a gas station in Guaynabo. As a security guard at the station, he was scheduled for the 8 p.m. shift on Tuesday,

hours before Maria hit. He sat behind a counter while the storm raged outside and water seeped in beneath the doors.

Winds peeled off the aluminum roof piece by piece throughout the night, and knocked over several gas pumps.

"It felt like a tornado, as if the roof was going to come off," Mr. Ramirez said.

Thousands of residents fled the winds and rain and hunkered down in stronger buildings. More than 500 shelters have been opened in Puerto Rico, but Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said he could not vouch for the storm-worthiness of those structures.

About 600 people took refuge in one of the biggest shelters, the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan. Witnesses said that the arena's roof had come off and that the shelter lacked electricity and running water.

For more infomation >> Hurricane Maria Strikes, and Puerto Rico Goes Dark - Duration: 7:11.

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Returning To Dark Souls 1 After 5 Years Pt. 2 - Duration: 2:00:25.

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10 Best dark spot corrector. - Duration: 5:44.

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Hurricane Maria Strikes, and Puerto Rico Goes Dark - Duration: 12:00.

Hurricane Maria Strikes, and Puerto Rico Goes Dark

Hurricane Maria, the most powerful storm to make a direct hit on Puerto Rico in almost a century, ravaged the island on Wednesday, knocking out all electricity, deluging towns with flashfloods and mudslides and compounding the already considerable pain of residents here.

Less than two weeks ago, Hurricane Irma dealt the island a glancing blow, killing at least three people and leaving nearly 70 percent of households without power.

This storm, which made landfall at 6 a.m.

as a Category 4 hurricane, took out the island's entire power grid, and only added to the woes of a commonwealth that has been groaning under the weight of an extended debt and bankruptcy crisis.

Beyond the immediate damage from winds up to 155 miles per hour, continuous rain flooded coastal communities as well as neighborhoods in the central, mountainous areas of the island, which is full of rivers and streams.

One person was reported dead, though the power failure has largely cut off communication with some of the worst-hit areas.

Residents woke Wednesday to the clamor of strengthening wind gusts, with the memory of Hurricane Irma still fresh.

By afternoon, the whole island had lost electricity.

"There has been nothing like this," said Ramón Lopez, a military veteran who was holding back tears outside his neighborhood in Guaynabo, on the northern coast near San Juan, the capital.

"It was the fury. It didn't stop.".

Continue reading the main story.

Such was the sentiment across the island as the barrage of howling gusts and pounding rain did not cease from the early morning until evening.

Francisco Ramirez, 23, weathered the storm inside the convenience store of a gas station in Guaynabo.

As a security guard at the station, he was scheduled for the 8 p.m.

shift on Tuesday, hours before Maria hit.

He sat behind a counter while the storm raged outside and water seeped in beneath the doors.

Winds peeled off the aluminum roof piece by piece throughout the night, and knocked over several gas pumps.

"It felt like a tornado, as if the roof was going to come off," Mr Ramirez said.

Thousands of residents fled the winds and rain and hunkered down in stronger buildings.

More than 500 shelters have been opened in Puerto Rico, but Gov.

Ricardo Rosselló said he could not vouch for the storm-worthiness of those structures.

About 600 people took refuge in one of the biggest shelters, the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan.

Witnesses said that the arena's roof had come off and that the shelter lacked electricity and running water.

"It's looking ugly, ugly, ugly over here," Shania Vargas, a resident of Carolina who had taken shelter in the arena, said in a telephone interview.

Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz of San Juan remained at the shelter with residents as the hurricane struck.

She told people there that there had been widespread flooding in the city, and said in a video posted to Twitter that "as uncomfortable as we are, we are better off than any other place.".

Elsewhere in the capital, tree trunks and electricity poles had snapped like twigs, obstructing major highways and winding mountain roads alike.

If an exit was not blocked by foliage, then it was flooded.

Power lines thrashed in the high winds.

The commercial Roosevelt Avenue had water up to the waist.

Metal gates in affluent neighborhoods like Caparra had been crumpled like cardboard, while makeshift trails leading to wooden houses in the barrios of Guaynabo had been made impassable by fallen trees.

Smaller towns and more rural areas, many full of wooden houses with zinc roofs, were difficult to reach after the storm, but widespread damage was reported.

Mayor Félix Delgado of Cataño, on the northern coast, told a San Juan radio station that the storm had destroyed 80 percent of the homes in the Juana Matos neighborhood, which had been evacuated.

Photos and videos posted on social media showed severe flooding in the central areas of the island.

Rivers overflowed and their waters rushed through the narrow streets, taking some homes with them.

Brock Long, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said that the United States Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico had very fragile power systems and that electricity was expected to remain out for a very long time.

Much of Puerto Rico lost power after Hurricane Irma passed just north of it this month, exposing the island's doddering infrastructure and the severe challenges it faces amid a worsening economic crisis.

Electrical power, produced by the state-owned Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or Prepa, has long been a headache for residents, who have come to distrust the flickering grid even in normal conditions.

Efforts by Prepa to fix lines and restore power after Irma will almost certainly have been undone by Maria, and the question of how a debt-ridden commonwealth will pay for comprehensive repairs is sure to confound its leaders long after the storm dissipates.

Potable water was also affected by the storm, but the authorities could not yet say just how much damage had been done.

Elí Díaz Atienza, president of the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, said that the agency's communications systems had gone down and that he was not able to check on plants and offices.

The gates of La Plata dam in Bayamón and the Carraízo dam in Trujillo Alto, both on the northern coast, were opened to avoid flooding in the nearby areas.

The authority had begun emptying the reservoirs several days ago in anticipation of heavy rain.

Mr Rosselló said on Twitter that he had urged President Trump to declare Puerto Rico a disaster zone.

Mr Trump declared an emergency in the commonwealth on Monday, and ordered federal assistance in the hurricane response.

But a disaster declaration would escalate that help.

Mr Trump called the hurricane "a big one" at a meeting in New York with King Abdullah II of Jordan.

"I've never seen winds like this.

Puerto Rico, you take a look at what's happening there.

It's just one after another," he said.

Other islands hit by Hurricane Maria before it made landfall on Puerto Rico were still struggling to regroup.

Seven deaths had been confirmed on Dominica, where the hurricane hit Tuesday, and the toll was likely to rise, according to Hartley Henry, an adviser to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.

Housing was severely damaged and all public buildings were being used as shelters, he said.

On Puerto Rico, even the concrete walls of some condominiums in San Juan had been blasted away, leaving living rooms and kitchens exposed.

Outdoor basketball courts were swimming pools.

Traffic lights had been knocked down and were now part of the obstacle courses of roadways.

Zinc-roofed structures were destroyed, as were windows and glass doors.

"This looks like a different country," Marimar de la Cruz, an educational consultant, said as she viewed the destruction in Hato Rey, a San Juan neighborhood.

Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Rosselló said that the island had updated its building codes around 2011.

Recent structures have been built to withstand storms, but many traditional dwellings, the governor said, "had no chance.".

Still, Mr Rosselló offered words of hope.

"There is no hurricane stronger than the people of Puerto Rico," he said.

"And immediately after this is done, we will stand back up.".

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Hurricane Maria Strikes, and Puerto Rico Goes Dark - Duration: 9:45.

Hurricane Maria Strikes, and Puerto Rico Goes Dark

Hurricane Maria, the most powerful storm to make a direct hit on Puerto Rico in almost a century, ravaged the island on Wednesday, knocking out all electricity, deluging towns with flashfloods and mudslides and compounding the already considerable pain of residents here.

Less than two weeks ago, Hurricane Irma dealt the island a glancing blow, killing at least three people and leaving nearly 70 percent of households without power. This storm, which made landfall at 6 a.m.

as a Category 4 hurricane, took out the island's entire power grid, and only added to the woes of a commonwealth that has been groaning under the weight of an extended debt and bankruptcy crisis.

Beyond the immediate damage from winds up to 155 miles per hour, continuous rain flooded coastal communities as well as neighborhoods in the central, mountainous areas of the island, which is full of rivers and streams.

One person was reported dead, though the power failure has largely cut off communication with some of the worst-hit areas.

Residents woke Wednesday to the clamor of strengthening wind gusts, with the memory of Hurricane Irma still fresh. By afternoon, the whole island had lost electricity.

"There has been nothing like this," said Ramón Lopez, a military veteran who was holding back tears outside his neighborhood in Guaynabo, on the northern coast near San Juan, the capital. "It was the fury.

Such was the sentiment across the island as the barrage of howling gusts and pounding rain did not cease from the early morning until evening.

Francisco Ramirez, 23, weathered the storm inside the convenience store of a gas station in Guaynabo. As a security guard at the station, he was scheduled for the 8 p.m.

shift on Tuesday, hours before Maria hit. He sat behind a counter while the storm raged outside and water seeped in beneath the doors. Winds peeled off the aluminum roof piece by piece throughout the night, and knocked over several gas pumps.

"It felt like a tornado, as if the roof was going to come off," Mr Ramirez said.

Thousands of residents fled the winds and rain and hunkered down in stronger buildings. More than 500 shelters have been opened in Puerto Rico, but Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said he could not vouch for the storm-worthiness of those structures.

About 600 people took refuge in one of the biggest shelters, the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan. Witnesses said that the arena's roof had come off and that the shelter lacked electricity and running water.

"It's looking ugly, ugly, ugly over here," Shania Vargas, a resident of Carolina who had taken shelter in the arena, said in a telephone interview. Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz of San Juan remained at the shelter with residents as the hurricane struck.

She told people there that there had been widespread flooding in the city, and said in a video posted to Twitter that "as uncomfortable as we are, we are better off than any other place.".

Elsewhere in the capital, tree trunks and electricity poles had snapped like twigs, obstructing major highways and winding mountain roads alike. If an exit was not blocked by foliage, then it was flooded.

Power lines thrashed in the high winds. The commercial Roosevelt Avenue had water up to the waist.

Metal gates in affluent neighborhoods like Caparra had been crumpled like cardboard, while makeshift trails leading to wooden houses in the barrios of Guaynabo had been made impassable by fallen trees.

Smaller towns and more rural areas, many full of wooden houses with zinc roofs, were difficult to reach after the storm, but widespread damage was reported.

Mayor Félix Delgado of Cataño, on the northern coast, told a San Juan radio station that the storm had destroyed 80 percent of the homes in the Juana Matos neighborhood, which had been evacuated.

Photos and videos posted on social media showed severe flooding in the central areas of the island. Rivers overflowed and their waters rushed through the narrow streets, taking some homes with them.

Brock Long, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said that the United States Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico had very fragile power systems and that electricity was expected to remain out for a very long time.

Much of Puerto Rico lost power after Hurricane Irma passed just north of it this month, exposing the island's doddering infrastructure and the severe challenges it faces amid a worsening economic crisis.

Electrical power, produced by the state-owned Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or Prepa, has long been a headache for residents, who have come to distrust the flickering grid even in normal conditions.

Efforts by Prepa to fix lines and restore power after Irma will almost certainly have been undone by Maria, and the question of how a debt-ridden commonwealth will pay for comprehensive repairs is sure to confound its leaders long after the storm dissipates.

Potable water was also affected by the storm, but the authorities could not yet say just how much damage had been done.

Elí Díaz Atienza, president of the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, said that the agency's communications systems had gone down and that he was not able to check on plants and offices.

The gates of La Plata dam in Bayamón and the Carraízo dam in Trujillo Alto, both on the northern coast, were opened to avoid flooding in the nearby areas.

The authority had begun emptying the reservoirs several days ago in anticipation of heavy rain.

Mr Rosselló said on Twitter that he had urged President Trump to declare Puerto Rico a disaster zone. Mr Trump declared an emergency in the commonwealth on Monday, and ordered federal assistance in the hurricane response.

But a disaster declaration would escalate that help. Mr Trump called the hurricane "a big one" at a meeting in New York with King Abdullah II of Jordan. "I've never seen winds like this.

Puerto Rico, you take a look at what's happening there. It's just one after another," he said. Other islands hit by Hurricane Maria before it made landfall on Puerto Rico were still struggling to regroup.

Seven deaths had been confirmed on Dominica, where the hurricane hit Tuesday, and the toll was likely to rise, according to Hartley Henry, an adviser to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.

Housing was severely damaged and all public buildings were being used as shelters, he said.

On Puerto Rico, even the concrete walls of some condominiums in San Juan had been blasted away, leaving living rooms and kitchens exposed. Outdoor basketball courts were swimming pools.

Traffic lights had been knocked down and were now part of the obstacle courses of roadways. Zinc-roofed structures were destroyed, as were windows and glass doors.

"This looks like a different country," Marimar de la Cruz, an educational consultant, said as she viewed the destruction in Hato Rey, a San Juan neighborhood.

Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Rosselló said that the island had updated its building codes around 2011. Recent structures have been built to withstand storms, but many traditional dwellings, the governor said, "had no chance.". Still, Mr Rosselló offered words of hope.

"There is no hurricane stronger than the people of Puerto Rico," he said. "And immediately after this is done, we will stand back up.".

For more infomation >> Hurricane Maria Strikes, and Puerto Rico Goes Dark - Duration: 9:45.

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Maria Strikes và Puerto Rico Goes Dark - Duration: 2:21.

Hurricane Maria, the most powerful storm to make a direct hit on Puerto Rico in almost a century, ravaged the island on Wednesday, knocking out all electricity, deluging towns with flashfloods and mudslides and compounding the already considerable pain of residents here.

Less than two weeks ago, Hurricane Irma dealt the island a glancing blow, killing at least three people and leaving nearly 70 percent of households without power.

This storm, which made landfall at 6 a.m. as a Category 4 hurricane, took out the island's entire power grid, and only added to the woes of a commonwealth that has been groaning under the weight of an extended debt and bankruptcy crisis.

Beyond the immediate damage from winds up to 155 miles per hour, continuous rain flooded coastal communities as well as neighborhoods in the central, mountainous areas of the island, which is full of rivers and streams.

One person was reported dead, though the power failure has largely cut off communication with some of the worst-hit areas.

Residents woke Wednesday to the clamor of strengthening wind gusts, with the memory of Hurricane Irma still fresh. By afternoon, the whole island had lost electricity.

Francisco Ramirez, 23, weathered the storm inside the convenience store of a gas station in Guaynabo. As a security guard at the station, he was scheduled for the 8 p.m. shift on Tuesday, hours before Maria hit.

He sat behind a counter while the storm raged outside and water seeped in beneath the doors. Winds peeled off the aluminum roof piece by piece throughout the night, and knocked over several gas pumps.

Smaller towns and more rural areas, many full of wooden houses with zinc roofs, were difficult to reach after the storm, but widespread damage was reported. Mayor Félix Delgado of Cataño, on the northern coast, told a San Juan radio station that the storm had destroyed 80 percent of the homes in the Juana Matos neighborhood, which had been evacuated.

Other islands hit by Hurricane Maria before it made landfall on Puerto Rico were still struggling to regroup. Seven deaths had been confirmed on Dominica, where the hurricane hit Tuesday, and the toll was likely to rise, according to Hartley Henry, an adviser to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. Housing was severely damaged and all public buildings were being used as shelters, he said.

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