Spare a thought for Puerto Rico today

[malaise]

11. Power gone

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/weather/ernesto-hurricane-forecast-puerto-rico/index.html

Tropical Storm Ernesto is edging closer to becoming a dangerous hurricane early Wednesday as it lashes Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with flooding rainfall and damaging winds that have left hundreds of thousands without power.

As a result, more than 300,000 customers in Puerto Rico were without power Wednesday morning, according to LUMA Energy, the private company that operates the transmission and distribution of power in Puerto Rico. In the US Virgin Islands, nearly 46,000 customers were without power, which is about 92% of the island’s tracked customers, according to PowerOutage.us.

Nearly a half a foot of rain had fallen so far in Puerto Rico and the storm’s trailing bands of storms continued to unload it Wednesday morning, causing flash flooding — especially in the eastern and southern parts of Puerto Rico and in the Virgin Islands.A