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Puerto Rico still in the dark....

0.3 to 1 meter waves hitting or predicted to hit nearby islands.

http://tsunami.gov/

You might have to poke around, hard to get the right link.

http://tsunami.gov/?p=PHEB/2018/01/10/18010000/3/WECA40

That one says no advisory in effect. But this is on another page:
PHEB/0.3-1 meters/ - 0.3-1 meters Cuba Issued at: 1/9/2018, 8:14:48 PM
PHEB/0.3-1 meters/ - 0.3-1 meters Mexico Issued at: 1/9/2018, 8:14:48 PM
PHEB/0.3-1 meters/ - 0.3-1 meters Honduras Issued at: 1/9/2018, 8:14:48 PM
PHEB/0.3-1 meters/ - 0.3-1 meters Belize Issued at: 1/9/2018, 8:14:48 PM
PHEB/0.3-1 meters/ - 0.3-1 meters Jamaica Issued at: 1/9/2018, 8:14:48 PM
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Puerto Rico's power outage is now the second-largest blackout on record

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/us/puerto-rico-blackout-second-largest-globally-trnd/index.html

(CNN) You may have thought the world had run out of superlatives to describe the misery that Hurricane Maria brought to Puerto Rico. Well now, here's another one: second-largest blackout in history.

Since the monster storm slammed into the American Caribbean territory in September 2017 and heavily damaged the power grid, more than 3.4 billion hours of electricity have been lost there. That makes it the second-longest blackout in world history, according to a report from the Rhodium Group, an economic research firm.

The only blackout in world history bigger than Puerto Rico's is the one that came after Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines in 2013. About 6.1 billion hours of power were lost after that massive storm.
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3rd longest blackout ever. There was the one before the 18 or 19 hundreds or whatever. We did fine during that one.
 
Trump personally? A little bit because of his boasting about how amazing the response to the crisis had been. The Trump administration? Absolutely we can blame them for their very poor response to help after such a major event.
 
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Trump personally? A little bit because of his boasting about how amazing the response to the crisis had been. The Trump administration? Absolutely we can blame them for their very poor response to help after such a major event.
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I blame Trump personally, at least in part. In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, there was one person who could have mobilized the resources to at least get the major urban centers of the island back up and running quickly. He chose not to do it. It's his fault. That's what "the buck stops here" means.


For the long term response, that's more complicated. If they had gotten off on the right foot, it would have been easier, so Trump gets some of the blame personally for his poor short term performance. On the other hand, it would be unreasonable to pour incredible amounts of US military resources into rebuilding over a period of many months, so he doesn't get all the blame. Even if they had done everything right in the first month after the hurricane, there might still be people without power in the mountains, and the infrastructure would still be shaky. The administration performance in the matter can't be good, or we wouldn't be hearing about it still today, but for all I know they might be doing an adequate job. I don't have the knowledge to judge the long term response.
 
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