The Hurricanes left the entire island in a blackout for a year. In addition, Puerto Ricans experienced one of the largest cases of corruption under the Whitefish Electrical Engineering firm, a company hired to repair the electrical system of the Island. Among other important points such as the false counts of deaths caused by the hurricane, the citizens found thousands of boxes of essential items such as water in an abandoned airport that was never distributed to the community. The poor management by the government of Puerto Rico in the face of the country's crisis provoked a massive emigration of Puerto Ricans to the United States.