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ThurberMingus  ·  2628 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Irma is going to be a Cat4 Hurricane, heading for Florida and the Gulf of Mexico

Hopefully Puerto Rico d̶i̶d̶n̶'̶t̶ doesn't get a direct hit. They have so many other problems they don't have the resources to rebuild:

    "Despite the economic challenges Puerto Rico is facing, the approved budget has $15 million for the emergency fund,” Rosselló said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-irma-puertorico/puerto-rico-declares-state-of-emergency-ahead-of-hurricane-irma-idUSKCN1BF25W

    Ricardo Ramos, the director of Puerto Rico’s power company, predicted the storm could leave some areas of the US territory without electricity for four to six months.

    The power company’s system has deteriorated greatly amid Puerto Rico’s decade-long recession, and the territory experienced an islandwide outage last year.

    Governor Ricardo Rossello, echoed the concerns, saying: “It’s no secret that the infrastructure of the Puerto Rico Power Authority is deteriorated.” Rossello has activated the National Guard, cancelled school for Tuesday and declared a half-day of work.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/05/hurricane-irma-states-of-emergency-puerto-rico-caribbean





am_Unition  ·  2628 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Whatchu mean "didn't"? It's still approaching Puerto Rico.

Is 2017 a good year for anything? Even the hurricane season is brutal. Yeesh.

ThurberMingus  ·  2628 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Didn't proofread. Oops

am_Unition  ·  2628 days ago  ·  link  ·  

n̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶!̶

p.s. it's all good, I just got confused

_refugee_  ·  2628 days ago  ·  link  ·  

it's weird strikethrough puts text in a serif font (times I think, while the rest of the site looks like Arial)

ThurberMingus  ·  2628 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The strikethrough is unicode characters, not html. It might not be available in the default font on your device.

_refugee_  ·  2628 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A desktop?