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NASA Images of Puerto Rico Reveal How Maria Wiped Out Power On the Island (jalopnik.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Jalopnik: Hurricane Maria was the most devastating hurricane to make land in Puerto Rico in nearly 100 years and the country is still reeling in its wake. Much of the island still doesn't have running water, reliable communication or electricity. Recently, NASA published a set of date-processed photos that show the island's nighttime lights both before and after the storm. Here, you can see images of the country's capital, San Juan, on a typical night before Maria. It's based on cloud-free and low moonlight conditions. Conversely, the following composite image is of data taken on the nights of Sept. 27 and 28 -- nearly a week after the storm hit -- by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, a scanning radiometer that collects visible and infrared imagery of land, atmosphere, cryosphere and oceans, according to NASA's website.
... it might be a sensible idea to bury electric cables rather than running them around on fragile masts and poles everywhere?
These photographs don't shed any light on how the grid was wiped out. It just shows how much. Which we already know. Just a little bit more graphic. That is all.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
What the hell are you talking about?
The willful neglect of the Trump administration in regards Puerto Rico.
The federal government (headed by President Trump) is doing everything they can in Puerto Rico right now, and people there are mostly praising the efforts.
Neither of these is true. The federal government is barely doing anything, and people there are mostly trying to survive, and lamenting that Trump is in charge, not somebody who would act, rather than strut and preen over his phony accomplishments.
But the fact is that the devastation is so widespread that it'll take years to clean it up. There's no indication that Trump is doing any less there than other places, and he's certainly not "dragging his feet".
Actually, it seems due to the dragging of his feet, it will take years before he gets around to ordering enough help to come clean up anything. Unless he buys another golf course, then the entire Fifth Fleet will be deployed.
I'm sorry you can only read Trump's self-promoting boastful tweets, and not realize that he's failed even worse than Bush after Katrina. That's a personal fault of yours.