By Andy Uhler
Solar panels at a hospital in Vieques in 2017. Puerto Rico's electric power system has been plagued by the damage inflicted by Hurricane Maria.
A full year after 2017’s Hurricane Maria, (click here) some municipal buildings in Mayagüez, a town on the west coast of Puerto Rico, were still without power.
That’s where Lionel Orama lives with his family. He said the storm led him to install photovoltaic (PV) solar panels on his roof.
Now the sun provides a third of his electricity....
A full year after 2017’s Hurricane Maria, (click here) some municipal buildings in Mayagüez, a town on the west coast of Puerto Rico, were still without power.
That’s where Lionel Orama lives with his family. He said the storm led him to install photovoltaic (PV) solar panels on his roof.
Now the sun provides a third of his electricity....
Trump is playing politics with lives. Two years later the number of dead Puerto Rican people is still not known.
Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with 174 miles per hour winds on September 20, 2017. This is three years later and now with an election on the horizon, Trump decides Puerto Rico is important to him. There is nothing Trump can do now that the next administration can do better.
Just for the record, solar energy is the best-suited method for Puerto Rico to produce electricity.
...FLORIDO: She said (click here) they went to represent the 4,645 people who died after the storm. That is not an exact count of the hurricane dead. It's one estimate that Harvard researchers published eight months after Maria, while the government's official count was stuck at 64....
18 September 2020
By Emily Goodon
President Donald Trump (click here) declared he's the best thing that has happened to Puerto Rico after his administration released $13 billion in aid as Democrats accused him of playing politics with the timing.
'I'm the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico. Nobody even close,' Trump said at a White House press conference on Friday.
Trump announced the federal funding on Friday to help the island recover from the devastation brought by 2017's Hurricane Maria but it also comes at a time he is courting Hispanic voters for his re-election bid, particularly in the critical state of Florida....
How many paper towels does $13 billion buy?
