At 9PM ET September 20, ABC News reported
The island of Puerto Rico has been "destroyed" after Hurricane Maria made landfall there as a Category 4 storm Wednesday morning, according to emergency officials.
Puerto Rico's office of emergency management confirmed that 100 percent of the U.S. territory had lost power, noting that anyone with electricity was using a generator.
Multiple transmission lines sustained damage from the storm, said Ricardo Ramos, director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. Ramos said he hopes to begin launching helicopters by this weekends to begin inspecting the transmission lines.
Telecommunications throughout the island have "collapsed", Abner Gomez Cortes, executive director of Puerto Rico's office of emergency management and disaster administration agency, told ABC News.
[...] Cortes described Maria as an unprecedented storm, adding that the island had not seen a storm of that strength since 1928.
[...] Puerto Rico was still experiencing tropical-storm force winds Wednesday afternoon, forcing emergency services and search and rescue teams to wait before heading out to assess the damage, Cortes said.
More than 12,000 people are currently in shelters, and hospitals are now running on generators, Cortes said. Two hospitals--one in Caguas and one in Bayamon--have been damaged.
No deaths have been reported so far, but catastrophic flooding is currently taking place on the island. Multiple rain gauges have reported between 18 and 24 inches of rain, with some approaching the 30-inch mark over the last 24 hours.
Flooding is the danger "that will take lives", Cortes said, advising residents not to venture out of their homes until Thursday because "it is not safe to go out and observe".
[...] As of 8 p.m. ET, Maria had weakened to a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained wind of 110 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.
[...] Some strengthening is possible now that the storm is back over the ocean, so Maria has potential to become a Category 3 hurricane again.
National Hurricane Center graphics for Maria.
Map of Caribbean Islands.
At 15:20 UTC, Mashable reported
Clips shot in the [cities] of Farjado, San Juan, and Guyama show buildings experiencing extreme structural damage. Doors are being ripped right off their hinges, and windows, walls, and roofs of homes, restaurants, and hotels are being stripped away by the storm's incredible power.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:02PM (11 children)
Sure, I don't disagree with that.
I was just pointing out that taking out 100% of the electrical grid counts as "destruction" in most people's book.
(Score: 1, Troll) by requerdanos on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:25PM (10 children)
Well, sure, destruction of something on the island.
Not of the Island.
Sort of like destruction of your theory here does not equate to you, yourself being destroyed.
It's not a difficult separation to make; different things are different even if one is a superset of the other on a massive scale.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by http on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:50PM (9 children)
Aristotle said it well:
-- Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 (~350BC)
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
(Score: 3, Touché) by requerdanos on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:06PM (2 children)
Still, I would submit that genuinely confusing "some poles and wires" with "an island of 13,000 square kilometers (~5,000 sq mi) with a population of over three million" reflects a serious problem of perception and understanding that goes far beyond a simple "lack of precision."
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Thursday September 21 2017, @09:06PM (1 child)
Additionally, does "destroyed" mean that there are lines down and a few towers and poles with damage and need repair, or does it mean the majority of poles and high voltage towers are so utterly damaged and missing that the entire grid requires outright replacement? "Destroyed" makes me think of the latter, but the statement from the Mr. Ramos sounds more like the former. Either way, I'd like a descriptor better than "damaged."
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(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday September 22 2017, @01:48AM
It means absolutely obliterated. Their electrical grid is totally destroyed and so many other things. It’s in very, very, very perilous shape. It’s very sad what happened to Puerto Rico (what is going to happen to North Korea). I wouldn't bail them out. You have to cut the debt way down and get back to business. 🇺🇸
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday September 21 2017, @10:53PM (5 children)
Good. Now, for the sake of precision, post the quote in Greek (the original language), please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday September 22 2017, @01:46AM (4 children)
For the sake of precision we need to dig up Aristotle and bring him back to life and ask for the exact quotation....
....could prove to be difficult, though.
:)
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday September 22 2017, @02:01AM (3 children)
I'll tell you another thing that may prove difficult: posting anything in Greek characters.
As of now, if try using the Greek characters plane of UNICODE, you'll be very likely asked "to figure out something else." by the lame lameness filter.
Come one, give it a try, go to Know thyself [wikipedia.org] and copy/paste those Greek Unicode characters, see what goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Friday September 22 2017, @09:04AM (2 children)
Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapter 1, as follows:
Yep, you need to remove every unaccented iota, replaced here with a barbaric Latin "i".
Source: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0053%3Abekker%20page%3D1094b [tufts.edu]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @10:02AM
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday September 22 2017, @10:08AM
Wrong section, Book 1, Chapter 3!