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    Puerto Rico: Video shows Puerto Rico school going wild as lights come back on after months of blackouts - Singing, cheering and even bell-ringing erupt as staff and pupils celebrate:

    Staff and pupils went wild with joy when the lights came back on in a Puerto Rico school after months without power, video shows.

    The Academia Bautista de Puerto Nuevo said it had gone 112 days without electricity after Hurricane Maria tore through the US territory last September....

    ...pupils can be seen dancing in their classrooms as teachers come out into the halls to film the scene. Singing, cheering and even bell-ringing erupt as the school celebrates...

    Nearly 40 per cent of power customers remain in the dark.

    Last week the island's governor, Ricardo Rossello, criticised the federal government's response to Hurricane Maria and said residents of the island - who are US citizens - are being treated like "second-class citizens".

    Mr Rossello and other critics have complained that federal aid given to Puerto Rico after its worst natural disaster has not been equal to that given to Florida, Texas and California after similar catastrophes.


    (Trigger warning: Vertical video)


    I noted one week after the hurricane hit Puerto Rico that the federal handling of the disaster was abysmal and that Trump should have resigned for his utter negligence on the issue which was far worse than Bush's negligence with regard to Hurricane Katrina. In the hundred days since, Trump and his administration have continued their woefully inadequate assistance to the people of Puerto Rico - whom, it bears remembering, are US citizens and he is their President.

    In the early days after the disaster his administration was trumpeting the low 'official death toll' as some sort of measure of their success, while reports from people on the island were all saying there were a lot more dead in the wake of the slow response to the disaster than was being reported (one harrowing comment I heard from a Puerto Rican in the couple of weeks after the hurricane was: "All the people in the local hospital on life support, and in intensive care - well the hospital lost power and all the equipment stopped working, so now they're all dead.") The NYT, with the benefit of 3 months to do an analysis, suggests: Official Toll in Puerto Rico: 64. Actual Deaths May Be 1,052.

    As a result of the abysmal response to the disaster, many, many, Puerto Ricans have simply left the island and moved to nearby Florida. Amusingly, as US citizens, they are entitled to vote if they live in Florida: Exodus from Puerto Rico could upend Florida vote in 2016 presidential race:

    “It’s important to vote and be heard — it’s a privilege,” said Rondon, who is one of thousands of Puerto Ricans who have moved to Florida in the past year...

    “It’s a potential game changer for the state,” said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic Research at the Pew Research Center. “It’s the biggest movement of people out of Puerto Rico since the great migration of the 1950s.”...

    “I think you are going to see a hyper-focus in Florida, the likes of which we have never seen. I do think Puerto Ricans can change the political landscape,” said Cristóbal Alex, president of the Democratic-backed Latino Victory Project.
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    third world craphole full of incompetent people takes 112 days to restore power, what a shock. if it wasn't part of and leeching off the united states it would probably resemble haiti a lot more than it already does
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    • #3
      Never mind the fact that experts have been warning Puerto Rico for years that their power grid was a mess and a major hurricane could wipe it out. Nope that fact is a truth that goes against the narrative. It’s easier to blame Trump than Puerto Rico’s local leaders that ignored the problem and expect the Fed to fix a problem of their own creation overnight. A power grid that wasn’t far from falling apart without a major hurricane, has to be rebuilt from basically from scratch, is taking forever to accomplish, imagine that!
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
        third world craphole full of incompetent people
        Is that a general description of the US?
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          Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
          Never mind the fact that experts have been warning Puerto Rico for years that their power grid was a mess and a major hurricane could wipe it out. Nope that fact is a truth that goes against the narrative. It’s easier to blame Trump than Puerto Rico’s local leaders that ignored the problem and expect the Fed to fix a problem of their own creation overnight.
          But did Puerto Rico have the money to upgrade their power grid?
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          • #6
            Originally posted by stfoskey15 View Post
            But did Puerto Rico have the money to upgrade their power grid?
            And who was President before Trump and could have dumped money into the power grid? As the article I found said, it was in terrible shape before the storm hit. Trying to get a power grid that was in such terrible shape up and running is no small task that will not occur over night and blaming Trump for a problem of their own creation is pretty dishonest. This would have happened no matter who won in 2016.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by stfoskey15 View Post
              But did Puerto Rico have the money to upgrade their power grid?
              Read the article.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
                Read the article.
                I would but ... "You’ve reached your article limit"

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                  I would but ... "You’ve reached your article limit"

                  Even Google cache and the Wayback machine versions won't work

                  Important bit:

                  Originally posted by The Economist
                  The story of PREPA is the story of Puerto Rico. The utility, created by a New Deal governor in 1941, powered rapid industrialisation in the 1970s as American pharmaceutical and other firms flocked to the island to take advantage of federal tax benefits. By offering stable, well-paid jobs to electrical workers, PREPA helped create a Puerto Rican middle class, says José Caraballo Cueto, an economist at the University of Puerto Rico. The boom was short-lived. When the federal government peeled back the tax perks in 1996, factories started leaving and PREPA began losing customers.
                  Declining revenues were exacerbated by political patronage, corruption and inefficiency. Municipalities and government agencies do not pay for electricity in Puerto Rico. Successive governments spent tens of millions of dollars evaluating solar and natural-gas projects in order to wean PREPA off its dependence on oil, but did next to nothing. Less than 3% of the island’s energy came from renewables.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                    Is that a general description of the US?
                    it's certainly a description of its progressive parts, yes.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                      third world craphole full of incompetent people takes 112 days to restore power, what a shock. if it wasn't part of and leeching off the united states it would probably resemble haiti a lot more than it already does
                      The residents of this "third world craphole", Donald, are citizens of the USA and warrant equal treatment to that afforded to Florida and Texas.
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                      • #12
                        Besides the fact that the governor of Feces Foramen Island is lying about the amount of money they have, there's this.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by NorrinRadd View Post
                          Besides the fact that the governor of Puerto Rico is lying about the amount of money they have
                          FTFY. Can we keep the racism down to a dull roar please?

                          there's this.
                          Seems like the entire management of the PR electricity company need to go to prison for life. Trump could usefully take some time out from shutting the government down and paying off porn stars to appoint a some prosecutors to get on that stat.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                            third world craphole full of incompetent people takes 112 days to restore power, what a shock. if it wasn't part of and leeching off the united states it would probably resemble haiti a lot more than it already does
                            The President of this “third world craphole” is Donald Trump. How crap does that make him?
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                            • #15
                              La la la la la America....
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