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Re: Power in San Juan
[Re: sail445]
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12/01/2017 01:25 PM
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sail445 said: It's almost as though the hurricane never hit. Really? That's certainly not what I am reading elsewhere. What is your source?
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Re: Power in San Juan
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12/01/2017 02:52 PM
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OK, what I hear has to do with Puerto Rico as a whole, more than San Juan in particular, but it seems that your estimate of power to the country as a whole is off..
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Re: Power in San Juan
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12/04/2017 09:00 AM
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Thanks! What are the AAA and AAE stats? What do they represent? Are these just for SJU or the whole island?
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Re: Power in San Juan
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12/04/2017 11:28 AM
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Have friends with family there. What I am hearing is that the statistics are skewed. That is, yes, 90% of the islands power may be restored, but that does NOT mean that 90% of the islands residents have power.
Priority is being given to things like government offices, first responders, hospitals, and the like. Then next priority is gas stations, grocery stores, other infrastructure stuff. Basically, the very last priority is power into individual homes.
This makes sense, of course. The people there understand the priorities. Visitors are probably not going to have any serious problems. Still, it is worthwhile remembering that there are still a WHOLE LOT of people on the island that are making due without any power in their homes.
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Re: Power in San Juan
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12/04/2017 04:32 PM
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OK, so according to that website, only 68% of power is on, through today. So the local reports seem to be somewhat optimistic?
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Re: Power in San Juan
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01/13/2018 12:24 AM
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Wisconsin news reports local utilities sending 60 workers to join the 1500 US utility workers leaving for Puerto Rico this next week to help restore electric. Brings the total number of workers in country to 5,500. "40% of PR still without power."
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Re: Power in San Juan
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01/18/2018 01:55 PM
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The "without power" can be a bit misleading as there may be "power" at the street/road but the individual structures may not be able to accept power, i.e.be hooked up due to damage. That is probably a big part of it. We had a house in VT that got damaged (basically destroyed, although structure was still intact, but moved off its foundation) and power was disconnected from it. So technically we probably we're without power until we completely cancelled our account. I imagine there's a number of houses that power has been disconnected from until they are repaired. I think there's likely remote areas that are completely without power still as well. Hotels are generally in more populated areas.
Matt
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