Hurricane Maria caused the worst blackout in US history — here's how one company survived the outages

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Hurricane Maria knocked out 80% of Puerto Rico's electrical grid. A company lost $35,000 of inventory from the outage, but here's how it bounced back.

President of Tere Foods, Yeidy Cruz:

Cruz couldn't afford to pay $400 a day to keep the generator running, so the factory closed. It led to more than $90,000 in production losses in just over two months.There was a need for pasteles and pasteles symbolize for Puerto Rican families the happiness of Christmas. And for me, it was important that in a moment so critically emotional, for me, my employees, and for all my community, to bring this type of hope and that we're going to find a way to return to normal.

 

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