Increasingly, electricity flicks on when Rodríguez and her 41-year-old daughter, Yaimara Matos, would normally be asleep. “If there’s no electricity, there’s no water because it doesn’t get pumped to the tank. When there’s water, there’s no electricity,” Rodríguez lamented. Now there is no longer any predictability: an outage can last 12 hours, 30 hours or longer. The family bought a small power generator, which they’re only able to run a few hours a day.