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People wait in line to buy ice during a massive blackout in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, September 22, 2016. Repair crews work to restore electricity to Puerto Rico's 3.5 million people after a power plant fire blacked out the entire U.S. territory. The outage was the latest hit for an island mired in a decade-long economic crisis and whose government has warned it is running out of money as it seeks to restructure nearly $70 billion in public debt. Many Puerto Ricans expressed doubts that power would be restored quickly, saying the economic slump has affected basic government services. Hundreds of people took to social media to criticize the Electric Power Authority, noting that they already pay bills on average twice that of the U.S. mainland. (Photo by Carlos Giusti/AP Photo)
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