2 Months After Maria And Irma, U.S. Virgin Islands Remain In The Dark
More than 33,000 people have applied for help from FEMA, as the territory struggles to recover from Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Nearly 73 percent of residents remain without power two months later.
The continuing blackouts in Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria have overshadowed the devastation in the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands, where nearly 73 percent of residents remain without power two months after the Category 5 storms made landfall.
More than 33,000 people, which is over a third of the U.S. territory's population, are from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Virgin Islands to more than 106,000 Americans, according to the most recent census
