The entire island of Puerto Rico is currently without electricity, according to NPR

[Nevilledog]

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Hurricane Fiona has officially hit Puerto Rico and the entire island is currently without electricity, according to NPR


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12:25 PM · Sep 18, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/18/1123690268/puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona

The entire island of Puerto Rico was without power on Sunday afternoon as a rapidly intensifying hurricane neared. The Category 1 hurricane known as Fiona is poised to produce dangerous landslides and heavy flooding in an already storm-battered island.

As of Sunday afternoon, the storm was centered 25 miles southwest of Ponce, a city on Puerto Rico's southern coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. It had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph and was moving west-northwest at 8 mph.

Fiona is expected to trigger 12 to 16 inches of rainfall in Puerto Rico but up to 25 inches across the island's eastern and southern regions.

More than 1,400,000 customers have lost electricity due to a transmission grid failure from the current hurricane, according to utility companies' reports tracked by PowerOutage.US.

Luma Energy, the island's private electric utility, says full restoration of power service on Puerto Rico "could take several days."

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. I'd be willing to bet President Biden will make sure more gets done than tossing paper towels.

[struggle4progress]

2. "This could never have happened if Saint Donald was still in office"

[Cha]

3. Stay Safe, Puerto Ricans! Our

Island went through a Devasting Hurricane on 9/11/92!

We were without electricity for 3 months. It wasn't so bad then.. no internet.

Grateful Pres Biden is in charge!!

[malaise]

4. No power at all

And there will be plenty more rain.
The flooding is going to be horrific.

[Nevilledog]

6. Yup.

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This is not what we want to see. Rivers in Puerto Rico have risen by as much as 20 feet this afternoon. In the case of the Rio Grande de Loiza, it rose from 6 feet to 26 feet - higher than it got during Maria. Catastrophic flooding is ongoing. #Fiona #PuertoRico
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[malaise]

7. On the other hand the poor people of PR may get a break

from the corporations buying out their damaged homes since Maria

[WarGamer]

5. At some time in the "near" future...

Some parts of the globe are going to need to be abandoned as Climate Change intensifies...

Between excessive heat, drought and/or violent storms...

[MurrayDelph]

8. Welp, there go my plans

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I was going there in a couple of weeks to see do some genealogical research