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Puerto Rico loses power again
I thought the grid was repaired after Hurricane Maria but apparently it was not improved.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62947900
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09-19-2022, 05:49 AM
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Just texted a buddy from San Juan but in Ohio. He was worried Saturday about his mom/extended family in PR. All ok but massive flooding.
Side note: I remember my first time in the San Juan airport when I went to the money exchange with $100 US and was looking to change it out for some Puerto Rican currency. There was alcohol involved. 
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09-19-2022, 07:33 AM
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The US will pay another huge payment to help rebuild the grid. They live on an island that gets hit with a hurricane on a regular basis and destroys most of the grid every time, and tears up houses on the beaches. Rinse and repeat.
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09-19-2022, 08:05 AM
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FB, grid was repaired but not really improved from a resiliency standpoint. Much of PR still uses poles & overhead wires to transmit electricity, no bueno in a hurricane.
Same is still true in much of the Pacific NW -- trees made super-heavy w/ snow & ice fall onto power lines pretty easily when soil is soft/wet and wind picks up.
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09-19-2022, 08:52 AM
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Hurricanes and above ground power grids is a recipe for failure. This has been proven many times over . Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results 😜
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09-19-2022, 09:25 AM
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Moving overhead lines underground is typically incredibly expensive. But for an island in hurricane country, might be worth it.
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09-19-2022, 10:04 AM
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Speaking of overhead lines and Puerto Rico..... See one minute in for the drone video. They knew it was coming down. This telescope receiver was in the movie Contact. Here's a snippet from the movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfiOT14MyaQ&ab_channel=ostinatoscope
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09-19-2022, 10:21 AM
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While on business in PR I got caught in Hurrican Debbie. It just side swiped San Juan where I was but still turned the entire city into an open sewer. It was very scary. I got out 2 days later but man what a mess.
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