Public schools will not reopen until another round of inspections take place, and there are an estimated 8,000 people in shelters, camps or refuges. Nearly 60,000 people are without power, concentrated in the most impacted areas, a reminder that the island’s frail electrical grid is vulnerable to natural disasters — some people went weeks or even months without power after Hurricane Maria, which was widely cited as a contributing factor in countless deaths in the aftermath of that storm.
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