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Much of Puerto Rico still without power after island-wide pre-Easter blackout

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NEW: As of 6 a.m. , some 609,000 customers had service, or 41% of homes and businesses.

NEW: "Why on holidays?" griped one man who didn't have a generator and kept cool by splashing water on himself every couple of hours .

The outage that began midday Wednesday left 1.4 million customers without electricity and 328,000 without water.

It's the second island-wide blackout to hit Puerto Rico in less than four months .

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