The number of people without power in Puerto Rico was almost exactly five years after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.
The street in Salinas, Puerto Rico, was flooded by a storm.
According to the government, 455,000 households in Puerto Rico still don't have water.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says at least seven people have died in the Caribbean from the storm.
The director of the Institute of Forensic Sciences said that as many as eight people may have been killed in Puerto Rico.
After battering the Dominican Republic and parts of the Turks and Caicos, the storm became a Category 4 storm.
According to the power company LUMA, power had been restored to 376,000 customers in Puerto Rico.
More than one hundred thousand. The director of the Dominican Republic's emergency operations center told CNN that 350,000 people were without power in the country as of Wednesday. There was a storm on Monday.
Hurricane conditions are expected on the island as the center of the storm passes just to the west. According to the National Hurricane Center, the storm will weaken as it approaches Nova Scotia.
Five years after Hurricane Maria decimated the power grid in Puerto Rico, causing the deaths of nearly 3000 people, the governor said this week that the island has been hit by another storm. As the storm came, residents were growing frustrated with LUMA, the private company contracted by the Puerto Rican government to fix the power grid. The residents protested the company and asked the government to end their contract because of the power disruptions caused by the storm. Despite previous forecasts for an intense year, the first Hurricane of the year made landfall in the U.S.
At least six deaths have been blamed on the Category 4 storm.
Up to 8 people are dead in Puerto Rico as a result of HurricaneFiona.
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