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(CNN)Puerto Rico has suffered an island-wide power outage, Puerto Rico's power authority said Wednesday.

The authority said it estimates power will be restored within 24 to 36 hours.
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Can anyone give a non-CR explanation of why this is still an issue? Lack of money from their debt?

I know a lineman that is working there right now.  They just got there a week or two ago.  

My understanding is that the entire grid is/was a piece of shit and high levels of corruption kept it that way.    

1 minute ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:
6 minutes ago, Dr Fear said:

Can anyone give a non-CR explanation of why this is still an issue? Lack of money from their debt?

Pretty much, this, no CR:

2 minutes ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

 My understanding is that the entire grid is/was a piece of shit and high levels of corruption kept it that way.   

 

 

1 hour ago, Dr Fear said:

Can anyone give a non-CR explanation of why this is still an issue? Lack of money from their debt?

The electric utility spends all their money paying off dept instead of maintaining the electrical grid. They also give free electricity to all the cities and aren't that great on collecting on debts. They have been raising rates for years to pay off the debts, so residents cut back more and more on their usage. 

New neighbor is an engineer that has been working three weeks a month to restore utilities in Puerto Rico since the disaster. From what I gather the local government there is highly corrupt and damn near impossible to deal with in a logical manner. Kind of like here, but cubed.

9 minutes ago, Texas_Rocks said:

New neighbor is an engineer that has been working three weeks a month to restore utilities in Puerto Rico since the disaster. From what I gather the local government there is highly corrupt and damn near impossible to deal with in a logical manner. Kind of like here, but cubed.

So pretty much like 80% of the world. 

7 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

I wonder how much of the island is even metered.

i do believe puerto rico is on the metric system.

11 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

I wonder how much of the island is even metered.

Maybe the "all bills paid" apartment concept is the way to go.

1 hour ago, hayden_horn said:

i do believe puerto rico is on the metric system.

Don't blame me, my car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it.

2 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

i do believe puerto rico is on the metric system.

And that’s only half correct. As they have both. It’s utterly confusing. 

10 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

So pretty much like 80% of the world. 

Only 80%? You're much too kind.

  • 6 years later...

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Nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power on New Year’s Eve

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s, leaving more than 1.3 million clients in the dark. Officials said it could take up to two days to restore power.

The outage hit at dawn, plunging the island into an eerie silence as electrical appliances and air conditioners shut down before those who could afford generators turned them on.

“It had to be on the 31st of December!” exclaimed one man, who only gave his name as Manuel, as he stood outside a grocery store in the capital of San Juan, grumbling about the outage that coincided with his birthday. “There is no happiness.”

Nearly 90% of 1.47 million clients across Puerto Rico were left in the dark, according to Luma Energy, a private company that oversees electricity transmission and distribution.

Luma said in a statement that it appears the outage was caused by a failure of an underground power line, saying it is restoring power “in the quickest and safest way possible.” A Luma spokesman told The Associated Press that the incident was under investigation.

I imagine somewhere on the island is a Clark Luis Griswold maddeningly trying to connect two power cords together to get the power back on.

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