I live in NJ
After Hurricane Sandy, our power was out for eight days and we are one of the wealthiest states in the US
Very few of our power lines outside the cities are below ground
Trump is in charge. If people are dying, you escalate the vast resources of our country to save them
That just shows you how fucked up PR's infrastructure was before the two storms hit.
The issue in PR is even the backbone systems, the transmission lines, the step down transformers, and the generating stations were in terrible shape before the storm. With Sandy the issue was the distribution system, not the transmission system, and even that, as you said, took 8 days, in a situation where it only took 2-3 days to send in repair crews from other States.
And those repair crews are not useful to fix transmission systems, which are more specialized crews, and work under rougher conditions.