| In a report released Thursday, FEMA said its planning in the region during the 2017 hurricane season was incomplete, did not adequately account for the possibility of multiple major disasters in a short amount of time and underestimated the impact of "insufficiently maintained infrastructure" in Puerto Rico. The report follows widespread criticism of the agency's handling of the 2017 hurricane season, particularly its response to Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico, knocking out power to virtually the entire U.S. territory of more than 3 million people.
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