Power Outage in Puerto Rico 1

[cuky2000]

I am witnessing a power outage in Puerto Rico for more than 10 hrs after a strong earthquake that wake us up in our vacations around 3:30 AM follow by recurrentes events. Scary moments even I had been in other heavy earthquakes in other latitudes.
Appear there are damages in the local generating stations. Early this morning an attempt to restore the outage was unsuccessful with a sudden trip delaying the restoring effort.

 

[itsmoked]

Yikes cuky! You should offer your assistance as that would help them and most definitely stamp THIS vacation as THE most memorable of a lifetime.

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[RRaghunath]

The mercury switches in transformer oil and winding temperature indicators and in Buchholtz relay are prone to (mal)operate during earth quakes. This leads to wide spread power outages.

 

[Mbrooke]

Call yourself lucky, you are witnessing history and knowledge in the making.


Stay safe!

 

[cuky2000]

Hello everyone. Slowly power is back in PR electricity after a powerful earthquake. Still today, 2/3 of the island remained without power after one of the most powerful earthquakes that strike the U.S. territory in the last 100 years.

One of the scariest experiences is to drive in a taxi without traffic signals in congested streets and highways.

Finally, I was able to get a ticket to move to another Island in the Caribean with the hope to find power with an open bar to expend the rest of the vacation and able to recharge the biological batteries with warm weather before getting back to the cold in the States.

An interesting aspect was to find that the airlines are speculating increasing exorbitantly the fare to more than double due to the overdemand to get out of the earthquake zone.
_{UNRELATED NOTES: Paradoxically, a few years ago our corporation re-built one of the largest plants for the local utility (PREPA) and while ago we participated in a GIS project on the Island. Even though the company is one of the few approved Engineer of Choice (EOC) the management is cautioned jumping to provide services concerned with bad experience related to financial issues in recent years.}

 

[Mbrooke]

Its not looking good "over a year"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itlELTw83Gc