据官员称，就在飓风菲奥娜于周日下午登陆之前，波多黎各全岛断电。
波多黎各州长Pedro Pierluisi周日下午在脸书宣布，由于1级风暴，持续风速为每小时85英里，暴雨降临该岛，超过150万客户没有电力供应。
周日早上，菲奥娜从热带风暴增强为飓风。Pierluisi说，一旦条件允许，公用事业公司的应急小组将立即部署。公用事业公司LUMA Energy在一份声明中说，恢复供电可能需要几天时间。
国家飓风中心表示，菲奥娜于美国东部时间下午3点20分在波多黎各西南部登陆。大范围的暴雨袭击了该岛的大部分地区，预计将持续几个小时。山洪暴发的影响遍及该岛的东半部，最恶劣的风力继续猛烈袭击该岛的西半部。
该岛中部山区城镇乌图阿多附近的一座桥梁倒塌，切断了当地报纸Salto Arriba和Guaonico社区的联系波多黎各之声报举报。
据El Vocero报道，倒塌的桥梁部分位于10号公路的分支123号公路上，该公路是两条公路之间的纽带，也是波多黎各大学乌图阿多校区的入口之一。
据该报报道，这座桥是由国民警卫队在飓风玛丽亚后安装的，建造成本约为300万美元。
Pierluisi认为波多黎各已经做好准备，有足够的资源和人力来应对，他在当天早些时候告诉美国广播公司新闻，并补充说，该岛从2017年9月飓风玛丽亚的毁灭性影响中吸取了教训。
“我们的处境比五年前好得多，”他说。
整个周日，波多黎各和多米尼加共和国最东部地区的飓风警报将继续发布。预计将有大量降雨，波多黎各和多米尼加共和国的大部分地区降雨量将达到10英寸。波多黎各的一些局部地区可能会达到20英寸。
虽然仍是热带风暴，但该系统袭击了加勒比群岛。据美联社报道，在法属瓜德罗普岛有一人死亡。据美联社报道，另有20多人在大风大雨中获救。
该岛在波多黎各的应急管理办公室甚至在周六上午的新闻发布会上停电。Pierluisi在周六晚上的新闻发布会上重申，人们担心暴雨会引发泥石流。
预报显示，穿过加勒比海后，风暴系统将向北移动，在百慕大附近移动之前，将经过特克斯和凯科斯群岛东部。风暴系统将在未来几天继续逐渐加强，向西北方向移动，并最终向北移动，本周穿过大西洋西部。
到周一早上，菲奥娜的中心和最严重的风力影响将集中在多米尼加共和国的部分地区。然而，无情的暴雨将持续到周一早上。
周二早上，菲奥娜将影响土耳其的部分地区&凯科斯。波多黎各和多米尼加共和国将继续看到逐渐改善的条件，但是，持续的阵雨和雷暴仍有可能，可能会影响最初的清理和恢复工作。
乔·拜登总统周日批准了波多黎各紧急声明，允许联邦机构协调所有救援工作。
白宫在一份声明中说，拜登的决定“旨在减轻紧急情况对当地人口造成的困难和痛苦，并为斯塔福德法案第五章授权的必要紧急措施提供适当的援助，以拯救生命，保护财产和公共健康与安全，并减轻或避免波多黎各自由邦所有78个城市的灾难威胁”。
官员说，至少有101人在波多黎各的79个避难所，预计这个数字还会上升。
风暴继续以大约每小时9英里的速度向西北偏西方向移动，截至周六晚上的持续风速为每小时60英里。
菲奥娜的中心在周五晚上穿过瓜德罗普岛，给背风群岛带来了暴雨和狂风。
预计周日晚上波多黎各西南部和圣克罗伊岛的部分地区将持续45至60英里/小时的大风，阵风高达85英里/小时。
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官员们说，波多黎各的降雨和狂风将持续到周一早上，下午情况才会逐渐减弱。
多米尼加共和国最糟糕的情况预计将在周日上午晚些时候出现。
Firefighters work to remove a fallen tree from the road in Vega Baja, Puerto, Rico, Sept. 18, 2022. Hurricane Fiona barreled toward Puerto Rico's coast on Sunday, knocking out all power and threatening to cause "catastrophic flooding" in the US island territory.
波多黎各消防局
雨水已经浸透了波多黎各东南部的地区，以及山区，那里潜在的泥石流和大风可能会造成最大的破坏。
“我们不应该低估这场风暴，”Pierluisi在周六的简报中说。
居民玛格达·迪亚兹在圣胡安沃尔玛外面告诉美国广播公司新闻，她预计会停电。迪亚兹说，她经常断电，尤其是在较小的风暴期间，最近有三天处于黑暗中。
一名LUMA Energy官员周六告诉ABC新闻，该公司一直在修复电网，并准备在系统故障时恢复电网。LUMA能源公司负责岛上电力的输送和分配。
“我们以为菲奥娜会停电...我们将从母公司再引进100名工人，他们将于周日抵达。
LUMA Energy的危机管理经理Abner Gomez告诉记者，这家能源经销商正在努力防止类似事件重演飓风玛丽亚的余波。
“我们将确保(大范围停电)不会发生，因为我们有工作人员，”他说。“会有损害的。会有中断，我们会做好应对的准备。”
Entire island of Puerto Rico loses power as Hurricane Fiona makes landfall
The entire island of Puerto Rico lost power just before Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Sunday afternoon, according to officials.
More than 1.5 million customers are without electricity as the Category 1 storm, with sustained winds at 85 mph and torrential rain bear down on the island, Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi announced on Facebook Sunday afternoon.
Fiona strengthened to a hurricane from a tropical storm Sunday morning. Emergency response teams for the utility companies will deploy once the conditions allow, Pierluisi said. It will likely day takes to restore the power, utility company LUMA Energy said in a statement.
The National Hurricane Center said Fiona made landfall in southwestern Puerto Rico at 3:20 p.m. ET. Widespread torrential rain has been hitting much of the island and is expected to continue for several hours. Flash flood effects are in place across the eastern half of the island, and the worst of the wind continues to slam the western half of the island.
A bridge near Utuado, a town in the central mountainous region of the island, has collapsed, cutting off the communities of Salto Arriba and Guaonico, local newspaperEl Vocero de Puerto Ricoreported.
The portion of the bridge that collapsed is on Highway 123, a branch of Highway 10, which serves as a link between both roads and is one of the accesses to the University of Puerto Rico at Utuado campus, according to El Vocero.
The bridge, installed by the National Guard following Hurricane Maria, cost about $3 million to construct, the newspaper reported.
Pierluisi believes Puerto Rico is prepared as it can be, with enough resources and manpower in place to respond, he told ABC News earlier in the day -- adding that the island learned its lessons from the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria in September 2017.
"We're much in a much better position than we were five years ago," he said.
Hurricane warnings will remain in place for Puerto Rico and the easternmost points of the Dominican Republic throughout Sunday. Tremendous rainfall is forecast, with much of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic expected to receive up to 10 inches. Some localized regions in Puerto Rico could get up to 20 inches.
While still a tropical storm, the system battered the Caribbean islands. One person died in the French territory of Guadeloupe, according to The Associated Press. More than 20 others were rescued amid heavy wind and rain according to the AP.
The island's emergency management office in Puerto Rico even had a blackout during its Saturday morning press conference. Pierluisi reiterated during that press briefing Saturday evening that the fear is that heavy rains will produce mudslides.
After passing through the Caribbean, the storm system will head northward, passing just east of Turks and Caicos before tracking near Bermuda, forecasts show. The storm system will continue to gradually strengthen in the coming days as it moves northwest and eventually northward, heading up across the western Atlantic Ocean this week.
By Monday morning, the center of Fiona and the worst of the wind impacts will be focused over parts the Dominican Republic. However, the relentless torrential rain will persist across much of Puerto Rico through Monday morning.
On Tuesday morning, Fiona will be impacting parts of Turks& Caicos. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic will continue to see gradually improving conditions, however, lingering showers and thunderstorms will still be likely, potentially impacting initial cleanup and recovery efforts.
President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for Puerto Rico on Sunday, which allows federal agencies to coordinate all relief efforts.
Biden's decision has the "purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in all 78 municipalities in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico," the White House said in a statement.
At least 101 people are in 79 shelters across Puerto Rico, with the expectation that the figure will go up, officials said.
The storm continues to move west-northwest at about 9 mph, with sustained winds of 60 mph as of Saturday evening.
Fiona's center moved through the island of Guadeloupe on Friday night, bringing heavy rain and gusty winds across the Leeward Islands.
Sustained winds of 45 to 60 mph are expected for parts of southwest Puerto Rico and St. Croix Sunday night with gusts as high as 85 mph.
Rain and gusty winds will continue for Puerto Rico through Monday morning before conditions taper off in the afternoon, officials said.
The worst conditions in the Dominican Republic are expected late Sunday morning.
The rain has already saturated areas in the southeastern part of Puerto Rico, along with the mountainous areas, where potential mudslides and winds could cause the most damage.
"We shouldn't underestimate this storm," Pierluisi said in a briefing Saturday.
Resident Magda Diaz told ABC News outside a San Juan Walmart that she expects to be without power. Diaz said she loses power regularly, especially during smaller storms, and was recently in the dark for three days.
A LUMA Energy official told ABC News on Saturday that the company has been fixing the grid and is ready to get the grid back online if the system fails. LUMA Energy is in charge of the transmission and distribution of electricity on the island.
"We were expecting power outages from Fiona ... and we're bringing in 100 more workers from our parent companies that will be landing Sunday," LUMA official Don Cortez said.
LUMA Energy's Crisis Management Manager Abner Gomez told reporters the energy distributor is working to prevent a repeat ofHurricane Maria's aftermath.
"We are going to make sure [a widespread outage] will not happen because we have the crews," he said. "There will be damage. There will be outages and we will be ready to respond."
