More than 450 power line workers from the New York area are on the ground in Puerto Rico trying to impose some order on the island's battered electric grid.
While Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands clean up after Hurricane Irma, many residents of these US territories say the challenge of storm relief is not just the devastation, but neglect from their fellow Americans in the continental US.
Many who remain in Miami are not staying there by choice.
With Florida still preparing for landfall, US citizens are already reeling from the punch of Hurricane Irma.