{"id":21755,"date":"2016-09-22T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21755"},"modified":"2016-09-22T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T23:56:00","slug":"puerto-rico-blackout-enters-second-day-entire-island-of-3-5-million-people-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21755","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico Blackout Enters Second Day &#8211; Entire Island Of 3.5 Million People Without Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-09-22\/puerto-rico-blackout-enters-second-day-leaving-entire-island-and-its-35mm-people-wit\">Puerto Rico Blackout Enters Second Day &#8211; Entire Island Of 3.5 Million People Without Power<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"messages-holder\"><\/section>\n<div class=\"tabs\">The\u00a0<strong>3.5 million people of Puerto Rico are entering their second day with no power<\/strong>\u00a0after a\u00a0<strong>substation fire knocked out service to the entire island<\/strong>. \u00a0 The power outage has left schools scrambling to cancel classes and public hospitals forced to cancel surgeries.<\/div>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-572946 ads-injected\" data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Perhaps even worse, the outage caused numerous fires across the island as a result of malfunctioning generators, including at the upscale Vanderbilt hotel in the popular tourist area of Condado and at the mayor\u2019s office in the northern coastal town of Catano.<\/p>\n<p>While Puerto Rico&#8217;s Governor Padilla and the utility&#8217;s CEO, Javier Quintana, have said they expect service to be restored by this morning, many\u00a0<strong>Puerto Ricans are dubious saying that the economic slump has affected the government&#8217;s ability to maintain basic infrastructure.<\/strong>\u00a0 According to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/puerto-rico-blackout-extends-into-second-day-1474545097?mod=e2tw\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, hundreds of people took to social media to criticize the Electric Power Authority, noting they already pay bills on average twice that of the U.S. mainland.<\/p>\n<p>The fire apparently started at this sub-station in Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames but the damage has still not been repaired leaving millions without power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico Blackout Enters Second Day &#8211; Entire Island Of 3.5 Million People Without Power The\u00a03.5 million people of Puerto Rico are entering their second day with no power\u00a0after a\u00a0substation fire knocked out service to the entire island. \u00a0 The power outage has left schools scrambling to cancel classes and public hospitals forced to cancel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78,389,14336,3824],"class_list":["post-21755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-blackout","tag-grid-failure","tag-javier-quintana","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21756,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755\/revisions\/21756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}