The WHOLE island.
At around 12:40 local time (16:40 UTC), a power outage impacting the entire island or #PuertoRIco began. #Internet traffic from the territory dropped by ~40% as a result.
Follow traffic trends at https://t.co/5elFSdaOajhttps://t.co/QZOfDCZRas pic.twitter.com/gIoNodTXaA
— Cloudflare Radar (@CloudflareRadar) April 16, 2025
And every last power plant went down.
Every last mojito with almost half the island still out as of this morning.
Nearly 620,000 are still without power in Puerto Rico on Thursday, more than 24 hours after the entire island lost electricity when its power plants were knocked out of service, the latest breakdown of the territory’s faulty electric grid.
I’m sure I’ve seen this movie before..several times.
In fact, the island rang in this past New Year’s in the dark.
The island’s new governor was sworn in to the sound of…
