Nicole Acevedo is a reporter for NBC News Digital. She reports, writes and produces stories for NBC Latino and NBCNews.com.
Indignant Puerto Ricans took to social media to condemn recurrent power outages that have been plaguing the U.S. territory since the beginning of the month. The biggest one yet occurred Wednesday night, leaving more than 340,000 customers without electricity as the island grappled with heat warnings. Residents shared images of their worn-out candles and videos of their blacked out neighborhoods overcome by the deafening rumble of generators.
In Old San Juan, dozens of Puerto Ricans gathered outside the governor's mansion, banging pots and pans, to protest the unreliable access to power. Shortly before 10 a.m. on Thursday, Luma Energy stated that over 99% of customers had their power restored. This is happening as Luma Energy works to restore a faulty energy transformer that left tens of thousands of other Puerto Ricans without power on June 2.
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