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Puerto Rico was without power for months after Hurricane Maria.
by sergiomattei 7y ago
Puerto Rico was without power for months after Hurricane Maria.
- throwaway5752 7y agoThey had massive physical damage from a powerful hurricane, their grid didn't just fail. Transmission lines and substations had to be repaired. That is ignoring issues like Whitefish Energy among other things. Very different situation. edit: yes, we know that nothing anywhere near comparable to hurricane Maria hit them.
- da_chicken 7y agoDo we know that there's been no grid damage in Argentina? It is the middle of winter.
- cryptonector 7y agoMost of the population and the grid are in temperate weather zones that get little wintry weather.
- wickerman 7y agoMost of the country has a very warm winter (yesterday I spoke to my mam and she said it was 16 C). There's been grid problems since I have memory. Doesn't surprise me that the whole thing eventually went down.
- pryelluw 7y agoNot that the PR grid was a an example of reliability before the hurricane. I had to endure hours and sometimes days with no power rather consistently. Maria wasnt the only hurricane that left us in the dark. George and Hortense were a 2 month ordeal with no power (aside from small gasoline generators) in the town I grew up.
- imjustsaying 7y agoparts, not the whole island. correct me if im wrong
- sergiomattei 7y agoThe whole island didn't have power for a few weeks, probably about a month. Source: born and raised here
- imjustsaying 7y agothanks