Even now, while officials say the $2.5 billion reconstruction effort has restored power to 98 percent of the grid’s customers, swaths of hilly country across the island are still pitch black after darkhttps://nyti.ms/2KHGXHo
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Even restored sections of the grid are nightmarishly unreliable, as evidenced by last month’s outage, the second major power failure in a weekhttps://nyti.ms/2KHGXHo
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The human and economic damage wrought by all that time without power may be irreparablehttps://nyti.ms/2KHGXHo
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Many experts and public officials have also lamented the decision, largely driven by federal disaster-assistance law, to rebuild a poorly designed grid almost exactly as it washttps://nyti.ms/2KHGXHo
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“The system that we have up now in Puerto Rico is vulnerable to a hurricane, and it’s going to happen again”https://nyti.ms/2KHGXHo
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And the President of the United States has made it clear he couldn't care less.
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He knows their votes don’t count. They should come to FL long enough to establish residency, in advance of 2020. And vote for the other guy.
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Can understand how the Fed and CIA, which have big Ops in Puerto Rico, are allowing this. Depopulation?
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Puerto Rico would be an ideal environment to install an actual 21st-century power grid, focused on wind, the sun, waves, etc. as power sources.
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I'm all for renewable energy. But there is a difference between generation and distribution. The focus needs to be on both.
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Agreed - in Puerto Rico, both are in shambles.
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Call it what you will, the negligence of Puerto Rico is racist, pure and simple.
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Then why not highlight it DAILY, above the fold on page ONE?
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Next month is the start of hurricane season. The islands in the Caribbean have not recuperated yet from last season.. There will be massive casualties.
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I hope this gets resolved soon. My heart goes out to the people of
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This is All thanks to the Republican Congress and Trump. The Bias against Color of any people is Trumps Racism showing. Trump Burned P R for a lot of money in fines for a deal gone south. Always a back story on Trump. And HATE. Uses position to Punish innocent people. "Costing"
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This is always the result of liberal socialism. Irresponsibility spend money on feel good items, getting further and further in debt, ignore the real brick and mortar issues, and then expect someone else to bail you out of your stupidity!
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