puerto rico
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Earthquake Shows How Fragile Puerto Rico’s Electric Grid Still Is
Puerto Rico just can’t seem to catch a break. The people of the island have been dealing with a series of small earthquakes for about a week, but the situation worsened Monday when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the southwest part of the island early morning.
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Tropical Storm Dorian Could Pose The First Cyclone Threat To Puerto Rico Since Maria
Tuesday morning local time, the U.S. National Hurricane Centre issued a forecast with words nobody on Puerto Rico wants to see: hurricane watch.
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Puerto Rico’s Farmers Face A Long Road To Recovery
On the morning of 21 September 2017, Carlos Lago and Justina Díaz Bisbal emerged from their household into a post-apocalyptic world. Their once-lush five-acre fruit farm in southern Puerto Rico was entirely stripped of its foliage. Tree limbs were broken or twisted; pieces of metal from nearby homes, trash, and even a mattress were strewn…
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Puerto Rico Is Investigating How It Screwed Up Restoring Power After Maria So Badly
The Puerto Rico Energy Commission has launched a probe into why its efforts to rebuild the commonwealth’s electrical grid after taking a direct hit from Hurricane Maria in September are proceeding so slowly, with less than even a third of the electrical grid back online to date.