Posted on 09/23/2016 10:47:35 AM PDT by Lorianne
The 3.5 million people of Puerto Rico are entering their second day with no power after a substation fire knocked out service to the entire island. The power outage has left schools scrambling to cancel classes and public hospitals forced to cancel surgeries.
Perhaps even worse, the outage caused numerous fires across the island as a result of malfunctioning generators, including at the upscale Vanderbilt hotel in the popular tourist area of Condado and at the mayor’s office in the northern coastal town of Catano.
While Puerto Rico's Governor Padilla and the utility's CEO, Javier Quintana, have said they expect service to be restored by this morning, many Puerto Ricans are dubious saying that the economic slump has affected the government's ability to maintain basic infrastructure. According to the Wall Street Journal, hundreds of people took to social media to criticize the Electric Power Authority, noting they already pay bills on average twice that of the U.S. mainland.
The fire apparently started at this sub-station in Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico.
PUERTO RICO: Nationwide blackout reported in all of PR due to a massive fire at power plant, leaving 1.5 million people without power. VIDEO pic.twitter.com/bnM59irSv3
— KolHaolam (@KolHaolam) September 21, 2016
Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames but the damage has still not been repaired leaving millions without power.
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Looks like PR has fallen. What causes this?
Posted two days ago ...
The benefits of high debt.
NWO beta test.
So, where the heck are the windmills and solar panels that were supposed to save everybody from power outages?
Uh-oh, what happens if the EBT cards don’t get recharged on time?
They’ll have to go back to their way of life before Electricity
Loose fiscal policy really sucks when the bill finally comes due and you run out of other people’s money. I know, maybe they can borrow some money from Venezuela.
Think of it as an EMP Drill.
If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to tune to one of the broadcast stations in your area.
This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System.
Perhaps if they read english instead of green they could have followed the instructions for assembling the new LNG power plant years ago.
And they have not tipped over.
“hundreds of people took to social media to criticize the Electric Power Authority”
And then they realized... social media requires electricity.
Obama needs to write them a big check.
What kind of ID do the Puerto Rican amigos have to show to fly here?
In this instance, as is usually the case with most public utilities, it was the use of funds for nothing but salaries and pensions, with nothing set aside for maintenance or upgrades.
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