CNN: Puerto Rico crews scramble to restore power after island-wide outage
(CNN)Electric service should be restored across Puerto Rico by Thursday evening, a utility official said, a day after the start of an island-wide outage that left many people in the dark overnight and prompted school cancellations and other interruptions across the US territory.
Most customers on the island of about 3.2 million residents still were without power Thursday morning, officials said.
An unspecified failure led to a fire at the Costa Sur power plant outside the town of Guayanilla on the southwest coast around 8:45 p.m.
Wednesday, cutting power across the island, Kevin Acevedo, vice president of the Puerto Rican utility company LUMA Energy, said at a news conference. Firefighters have since extinguished the flames.
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WNU Editor: An American friend of mine moved from New Jersey to Puerto Rico 18 months ago. Warm weather, low tax rates, and an entrenched political system that he despised were the reasons for his move. He lasted about 9 months. He found the same government incompetence and corruption coupled with the inability to get things done in Puerto Rico that he experienced in New Jersey. He is now in Florida, and is very happy with this move.
Fire At Puerto Rico;s Main Power Plant Plunges Island Into Darkness
Puerto Rico power outage plunges over 1 million into darkness -- The Guardian/AP
Fire at Puerto Rico Power Plant Plunges Island into Darkness -- Bloomberg
"Island-Wide Blackout" Strikes Puerto Rico After Major Power Station Erupts In Flames -- Zero Hedge
5 comments:
Signs that the US has far bigger problems at home.
keep picking CD In fact all countries have infrastructure issues and those things can be fixed.
Yikes, how to charge the car now...
Yeah, well the road closure literally in front of my house because the road is collapsing can get fixed. Just not in the past month or in the foreseeable future.
Most of the concrete structures that make up highways and bridges are past their life expectancy and so are in desperate need of being replaced. Not to mention the various sewer and piping problems. I know of several leaking water lines that are just allowed to continue leaking. There are a number of pipes that need constant replacing causing annual road closures. There are the truly monumental F*ck ups like Flint and the ash coal spills. This combined with the nakedly blatant corruption (such as the little pink house) and increasingly distant government that somehow manages to get nosier into our personal business is making for a bleak future.
Agree with the editor's comment. From my experience it was a nice place to visit the two times I went. In and around San Juan were fun and nice. That's about all I'll say.
Blows my mind but does not surprise me that one party here in the US wants to make PR a state.
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