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brooklynite

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Thu Sep 21, 2017, 10:36 AM Sep 2017

Entire island of Puerto Rico loses power

Source: Salon

As a category 4 hurricane battered Puerto Rico on Wednesday, residents suffered a total collapse of the electric grid as the island experienced major flooding and intense winds. Hurricane Maria struck the U.S. territory a mere two weeks since it had been grazed by Hurricane Irma, which Bloomberg estimated to have caused $1 billion worth of damage.

Hurricane Maria's path over the island was more direct than Irma's, however. “No generation has seen a hurricane like (Maria) since San Felipe II in 1928,” Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló, said in a press release.

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In addition to the blackout, National Weather Service meteorologist Carlos Anselmi was quoted in the New York Times as saying that there had been “multiple reports . . . of coastal flooding along the south, north and east of Puerto Rico.”

The governor of Puerto Rico instituted a curfew across the island from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., which was to last until Sunday, according to the Times.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/09/20/entire-island-of-puerto-rico-loses-power/

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Entire island of Puerto Rico loses power (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2017 OP
unimaginable.... dhill926 Sep 2017 #1
Power may be out for 6 months. I read trump will visit PR soon. riversedge Sep 2017 #2
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