And you are the one that's gonna have to pay
for all of their problems down there...
And now there's this. A major power outage hit Puerto Rico late Wednesday, plunging nearly 350,000 customers into darkness after a fire erupted at one of the largest power plants in the U.S. territory.
The outage was one of the biggest in recent months for the island’s crumbling electrical grid, which has seen its periodic blackouts grow worse the last few years. The outage elicited a collective groan from people across Puerto Rico as many who depend on insulin or respiratory therapies once again worried about how long it would last.
“Apagón!” wrote many frustrated customers across social media, using the Spanish word for outage.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said priority would be given to hospitals and other institutions as he tweeted: “I urge everyone to remain calm.”
Puerto Rico’s health secretary said generators at all hospitals and health centers were functioning and had enough fuel, adding that coronavirus vaccines remained properly stored at the correct temperature.
would go out two or three times a week. STJ's power came on an under-sea cable from St. Thomas.
After Hurricane Marilyn in 1995, we had no power at all on the island (except for generators) for ten weeks.
Now there's a system you can really trust, huh?
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No power.
ReplyDeleteNo EV's.
How sad.
An SMR would solve the problem for every island, and county for that matter. Safe, efficient, takes up a few acres, simple. But nuclear has been labeled "evil"....because "renewables, that are not "green."
ReplyDeleteI lived/worked in P. R. from 85 to 92, in an oil refinery just west of Ponce. Live in the barrio of El Tuque, Nueva Vida. Built a house and lived very well with my P.R. bride. Yes, the cities are rotten. The people outside, in the hills are hard working, good people by and large. The Govt. is a mess though and fuck up whatever they touch. I was sad to leave.
ReplyDeleteI was living on St John not too far from you during that same time frame. I too was sad to go but it was getting so ridiculously expensive to live there.
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