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Raptor22 | 3 years ago
If you live in Puerto Rico, extremely unreliable [0, 1]
> It's a lot easier having someone else manage the entire infrastructure
Indeed it is, if they're competent [2, 3]
> Unless you're in an area with common widespread natural disasters there's no reason to expect a 7 day outage ever
Puerto Rico, along with the mid to southern east coast of the US, along with coasts on the Gulf of Mexico, are not strangers to powerful hurricanes. As climate change gets worse, the impacts of these phenomena may increase. After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September of 2017, it took *months* for power to be restored to most of the island [4]
[0] (Island-wide outage in 2016, before Hurricane Maria): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37436392
[1] (Island-wide outage in April of this year): https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/07/major-...
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/businesses-puerto-rico-f...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/09/us/puerto-rico-power-outa...
[4] https://www.npr.org/2018/08/15/638739819/nearly-a-year-after...
HWR_14|3 years ago
PR (and parts of TX) at least have the excuse of hurricanes. Although TX failing because of the unexpected people turning on their ACs in the summer is a bit much.