Posted on 09/21/2016 6:14:10 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Edited on 09/21/2016 7:18:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A big fire erupted at an electricity plant that powers most of Puerto Rico on Wednesday, causing a blackout that swept across the U.S. territory of 3.5 million people.
The Electric Power Authority said two transmission lines of 230,000 volts each failed. Executive Director Javier Quintana told reporters that he expected most power to be restored by Thursday morning, adding that airports, hospitals, police stations and water plants would get priority.
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Hillary’s America.
Wait ‘til it’s a quarter of the USA and the ‘rats blame whitey...
OHMERGAWD!!
No power, oh heavens!!
No coffee, oh darn!
No pressed Cuban sandwiches, oh no!
NO INTERNET!!!
ARGH!!!!!!!
Man, you’re not kiddin!
No justice, no peace rioting +
They’ll be demanding that the rest of the United States pay for it.
I was in San Juan a couple of months ago when the same thing happened. All services came to a halt immediately. After a day or two, the place really stunk as garbage piled up.
If it is in the very high volt power lines, it will be difficult to fix. But, perhaps better in the power lines themselves than in a multi-million dollar, many ten thousand ton transformer fire!
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Arcing at major power switches is really nasty.
I got stuck at a substation where a switch failed and began to arc. It got intensely hot very quickly, and burned the paint off of trucks that were parked near by.
The bad switch happened to be right next to the only gate!
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Knowing Puerto Rico, they probably got their power cut off for non-payment of bills.
Don’t worry, the US taxpayers will bail out the non-taxpayers. Again.
It sounds more serious than that if the water is out and this last for an extended period.
Sounds like a general call for looting, too. I wonder how long it will be before there is widespread trouble.
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Do you remember when some fool cut a major cross country underground line down in New Zealand?
I think it was in the late ‘80s.
Took a month to restore power.
No worries. Baccardi has it own wind turbine power plant. There’ll always be plenty to drink.
I might have been tempted to make a new gate if I had a big enough vehicle.
A lot of people dump on Puerto Ricans. But all this is the curroptocrats fault (I know, I know. They DID vote for them). Nontheless, I like Puerto Ricans. Especially the ladies. Especially since when I went to the apartment of a friend, she was out, but her Puerto Rican roommate was there and treated me VERY well. :)
Good idea of what urban centers will face when the power goes.
Watch, learn and remember.
Dear Revel,
I agree with you.
HOWEVER, it IS Hurricane Season, and for anyone on that island to NOT have their ‘stores of stuff’, considering THEY might get hit a lot more than Florida and the Gulf States might, would be an idiot.
I do consider this whole mess a setup, to introduce the need for P.R. to become ‘a state’, to get all that federal mo-er-help.
“better in the power lines themselves than in a multi-million dollar, many ten thousand ton transformer fire!”
On Guam the power plant itself burned and exploded We had to use an emergency plant owned by the Navy to run RADAR in war time. It has taken nearly a month to get power back where we don’t have rolling blackouts
But, since Guam is trending republican nobody in Washington cares
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