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Crews Scramblad to restore Power Puerto Rico on Thursday to a Blackout Hit the whole island, affects the main international airport, hospitals and hotels full of Easter holiday.
The look that started the past Wednesday with noon of 1.4 million customers without electricity and more than 400,000 without water. More than 826,600 customers, or 56 percent, had back in Thursday afternoon, while 83 percent of customers were watering water. Officials expected from 90 per cent of customers to have back to the expanded back.
“This is a shame for the people of Puerto Rico we have a problem of this size,” said gov. Jenniffer González, who cut off their weekends and return to Puerto Rico on Wednesday to Puerto Rico.
She said it would take at least three days to have the blackout may have caused hundreds of business to close and leaving you can’t renew to buy ice cream and candles.
“There is still a long way of recovery,” she said. “Our system is very fragile.”
It is the second massive blackout to hit Puerto Rico in less than four months, with the previous one occurs on New Year’s Eve.
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“Why on holidays?” Griet José Luis Richardson, who had not a generator and kept cool by splashing every few hours on himself in itself in himself.
The roaring generators and smoke of vapes filled the air as a growing number of government to cancel the government, which cancel the government and division, and genera pr, which Oversa’s generation.
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González promised to achieve these conversations.
“That is not under doubt or question,” she said, but added it is not a quick process. “It is not acceptable that we have failures of this kind.”
González said a great expense such as the one who happened to an estimated on Wednesday, to an estimated US $ 230 million revenue daily.
Ramón C. Barquín III, president of the United Retail Center, a non update that represents small and medium, that sustained performers at a time puerto rico extended economic evidence.
“We can not repeat this cycle of blackouts without taking concrete measures to strengthen our energy fragruct,” he said.
Many were also concerned about the older population of Puerto Rico, with the Canóvanas employed brigades to try and the bedside and those who depend on electronic medical equipment.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Vega Alta, a center to provide power to those with life moderate medical equipment.
Wednesday night was difficult, including 62-year-old Santos Burgos Burgos.
“I spent it on the balcony,” he said, add that he tried to get some fresh air.
At a moment he fell asleep and recalled to wake up at 5 am to a neighbor scream, “is the power back!”
Among you cannot sleep Dorca Navarrete, a 50-year-old house cleaner who said it was too hot.
“Last night was terrible,” she said. “I woke up with a headache.”
When she opened her eyes she saw light and thought it could not be as the sun to be the sun. Then a smile about their face when they realized it was out of the light, she was left in a room before.
What did the blackout caused?
It was not immediately clear what the shutdown caused, the last in a string large blackouts on the island in the last few years.
One possibility is that overgrown the grid, which, if true, would not have happened, Josué Collar, the energy Czar and former executive director of the Island player.
He noticed that the authority flew every day to check for certain lines, something he said luma must do.
Colón said luma must also explain why all generators shut down after a failure in the failure in the extracessing system, if there would be in the protective mode.
PEDRO Meléndez, a luma-engineer, said that a research continues. He said Thursday in a press conference that he did not immediately, when the company was a loft patrol, but said that prevailed with the frequency established in his contract.
Daniel Hernandez, Opera President of Opera Practory at Genera Pr, said that a disturbance system, a time that it is grate vulnerable because there are few machines are frequency at that hour.
Puerto Rico has been stroncled by chronic out of the September, when Hurricane Maria pummeled the island, as a powerful category 4 -storm, rolling on a powerriages that are still crews still trouble to burn.
The grid was already fewer as a result of decades of a lack of maintenance and investment under the state of state, which is difficulty to restore $ 9 billion in debt.
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