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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Puerto Rico in total darkness after Hurricane Maria knocks out 100% of the island's power
2017-09-21
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The entire island of Puerto Rico is without power after Hurricane Maria swept through the U.S. territory today

  • Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico Wednesday morning as a Cat. 4 hurricane with 155 mph winds

  • As of 5.30pm ET, the storm has moved off shore and weakened to a Cat. 2 storm with 110 mph winds

  • The storm is next headed to the Dominican Republic, where it's expected to strike tonight

  • The Turks & Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas will see hurricane conditions Thursday evening

  • Before hitting Puerto Rico, Maria battered St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands for about five hours overnight

  • Forecasters say it could regain strength and Maria could again become a major hurricane by Thursday

  • So far, Maria has been blamed for nine deaths - seven on Dominica and two on Guadeloupe
Posted by:Fred

#6  Where are the Leftists of the 80s who demanded independence? Let's give it to them now.
Posted by: jack salami   2017-09-21 20:33  

#5  Where I live we had a 12 inch rainfall in 18 hours, 6 inches of that in just a single hour. Thousands of basements in the county flooded due to sewer backups or leakage from walls, many of them for the first time ever. Rain ended by 2000. By 2030 all the sump pumps, drainage hoses, wet vacs & suchlike in the entire county had been sold out. It was several days before the retailers could be re-supplied.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2017-09-21 13:49  

#4  Don't know about VI, et. al. which is multinational and may have different 'DoT' standard mandates for intersection illumination, but I do know that Dallas local building suppliers inventory and employee resources (Home Depot, Lowes) have been decimated. Studs, plywood, roofing, electrical, drywall, appliances ripped off the shelves and shipped south with employees and forklifts. Faster to gut the local stores. Penske, Uhaul, rent-a-truck businesses are also southbound.

Wet cement left in place becomes rocks. Mobile cement plants will be in demand.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-09-21 13:34  

#3  A serious investing question here. On the mainland the only publicly traded company that sells/makes traffic lights and street lights is VMI. The rest are all private companies including the elect/tel pole ones.
Do the Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico use VMI (Valmont Industries) product?

Posted by: 3dc   2017-09-21 11:39  

#2  Wealth redistribution happens in the dark.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-09-21 09:48  

#1  I'm sure all those academics, reporters and entertainers will get it all back on line in a day or two. /sarc
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-09-21 06:53  

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