Combine your link with the fact that equipment and supplies are scarce, as well as so is food and medicine, and you have a whole bunch of weak and starving workers who don't have the materials required to maintain the grid.
And, while it might be fun to participate in a conspiracy theory that it was caused by the US, I think it was more because of starving workers without the necessary equipment and tools.
Especially when you consider the fact that it is a jungle country, with lots of critters that can get in the grid and short it out.
Why aren’t equipment and supplies scarce in my state? Why aren’t the workers here weak and starving?
Wow.......................nice deflection. Well, in answer to your question, it's probably because the economy of your state and country hasn't been tied to oil revenues, and your governor isn't robbing your state blind and acting like a dictator, as well as refusing any kind of aid sent to the borders of your state.