Something you could almost set your watch by, no?
Death, taxes, Democrats navel gazing…and the Puerto Rican electrical grid being totally afu.
There are simply constants in this world that never, ever change, and Puerto Rico in the dark is one of them.
…In Puerto Rico, where the so-called “national electric grid” has been darn near non-functional since time immemorial, the fight is taking on tragi-comic proportions.
Nearly six years after Hurricane María destroyed Puerto Rico’s electrical grid and triggered the second-longest blackout in world history, Raquel Maria Gonzalez Sparks still loses power weekly, if not daily.
The nonstop outages — which many on the island say worsened after a private company took over the public power system in June 2021 — have left Gonzalez’s life in tatters.
…The transformer down the block explodes at least once…
