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>> It’s been two weeks since Hurricane Maria dealt a massive blow to Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, and most of the island is still in the dark. The storm was devastating, but Puerto Rico’s Electrical Power Authority, or PREPA, was already limping along before Maria. A fact the island’s Governor, Ricardo Rossello, admitted when he spoke with Reuters correspondent, Nick Brown.
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>> What made Maria’s impact in Puerto Rico so severe was years of lack of maintenance to a grid that the governor told us was hopelessly outdated. While PREPA did have a plan to mitigate damage at the grid’s weakest areas, the Governor admitted to us, when we spoke to him, that there was nothing that was going to stop a storm like Maria from dec…
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