[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article):" 80 percent of Puerto Rico is without power, a result of extensive damage to an already seriously deficient electrical grid.
It is expected to take months to fix,
and in the meantime, water and sewer systems that rely on electricity for pumping remain compromised."

Prepper Ping - from the American Territory just south of our border

(Comment from FReeper: blueunicorn): "It is an “already seriously deficient electrical grid” because the Puerto Ricans pocketed the money
that was supposed to be spent upgrading it."
(Comment from FReeper: mountn man) :"What everyone FAILS to mention, is the exact condition of utilities and infrastructure and reliability beforehand

Liberal/Socialistic policies lead to corruption, waste, centralized control, and when it all falls apart they look for others to bail them out (other peoples money)
or they face bankruptcy !!
You say that it can't happen here ?
What is the difference between the mainland and Puerto Rico ?
Answer: Cash reserves, self-determination, emphasis on independence and an industrious personality, rather than settling on complacency, and "status quo".
See what happens if just one cog of a wheel that we call society breaks down; it has a 'trickle down effect'.

H/T to Tolerance Sucks Rocks

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

By all means, check out the Conservativetreehouse video in Post #9 !
Informative and disturbing !

[caww]

They need to stop saying 80 percent of Puerto Rico is without power......there's enormously vast numbers of generators distributed throughout the country....the ONLY alternative as their entire electrical grid was beyond ruined before the storms hit.

It's going to take YEARS not months to fix what's destroyed there....it was an easy take down for the Hurricane's since most of it was falling down to begin with.

People should remember PR had declared bankruptcy before the storms in order to generate funding to even ‘repair’ the broken/failed infrastructure there...again before the storms. Therefore it's not fair to use them as a comparison to other natural disasters..they were a disaster to begin with.