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Like California on a hot day, Puerto Rico is without power across the island. The main difference is that while California has rolling black outs and asks people not to charge their electric vehicles, Puerto Rico lost their power in a violent hurricane.
Fiona reached Puerto Rico on Sunday as a Category 1 storm. Governor Pedro Pierluisi confirmed the island's electrical outage shortly before President Joe Biden authorized an emergency disaster.
“Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and ordered Federal assistance to supplement Commonwealth and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Fiona beginning on September 17, 2022, and continuing,” Biden, or someone behind the scene, who had not lost their language skills, wrote.
“The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population,” the declaration added.
The storm is expected to bring up to two feet of rain in some parts of the island, with more than 12 inches of precipitation across most of Puerto Rico. Fiona began as a tropical storm, striking Guadeloupe on Friday with one death reported.
Fiona was upgraded to hurricane status on Sunday as sustained winds reached more than 80 miles per hour. Gusts of up to 100 miles per hour have been reported on the island with a population of 1.4 million people.
Puerto Rico’s Luma Energy reported the blackout conditions on Sunday afternoon.
“The current weather conditions are extremely dangerous and are hindering our ability to fully assess the situation,” the company said in a statement.
“Due to the magnitude and extent of the blackout, as well as the effects of Hurricane Fiona, the total restoration of electricity service could take several days,” it added. This is actually worse than California, except for the schools on the island not being forced to teach critical race theory or have "Drag Queen Story Hour" with toddlers.
Health centers are reportedly running on generators, the Associated Press reported, and solar panels would have been useless, but imagine what wind turbines would produce.
“The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population,” the declaration added.
The storm is expected to bring up to two feet of rain in some parts of the island, with more than 12 inches of precipitation across most of Puerto Rico. Fiona began as a tropical storm, striking Guadeloupe on Friday with one death reported.
Fiona was upgraded to hurricane status on Sunday as sustained winds reached more than 80 miles per hour. Gusts of up to 100 miles per hour have been reported on the island with a population of 1.4 million people.
Puerto Rico’s Luma Energy reported the blackout conditions on Sunday afternoon.
“The current weather conditions are extremely dangerous and are hindering our ability to fully assess the situation,” the company said in a statement.
“Due to the magnitude and extent of the blackout, as well as the effects of Hurricane Fiona, the total restoration of electricity service could take several days,” it added. This is actually worse than California, except for the schools on the island not being forced to teach critical race theory or have "Drag Queen Story Hour" with toddlers.
Health centers are reportedly running on generators, the Associated Press reported, and solar panels would have been useless, but imagine what wind turbines would produce.
The outlet noted that Health Secretary Carlos Mellado said crews were working to repair generators as soon as possible at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, which had experienced outages.
The latest hurricane passes through just two days ahead of the anniversary of Hurricane Maria, which caused nearly 3,000 deaths in the region in 2017. The devastating Category 4 storm struck on September 20, 2017, destroying the island’s power grid.
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The latest hurricane passes through just two days ahead of the anniversary of Hurricane Maria, which caused nearly 3,000 deaths in the region in 2017. The devastating Category 4 storm struck on September 20, 2017, destroying the island’s power grid.
Thankfully only one unfortunate person was killed but it could have been worse.
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