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A report I read estimated it could possibly take 2 or 3 months to fully restore power in PR. Apparently the whole power grid was poorly maintained and extremely fragile after years of neglect as a result of the ongoing governmental debt crisis. Hopefully your brother can stay safe and find a return to normalcy soon enough.

Good to hear. It sounds like Irma dodged around a little bit so that PR didn't take a direct hit from the winds next to the eye wall. That probably saved hundreds of lives.

I got a buddy in Houston (well, he was ...) who was posting photos on Facebook as it happened. Some pretty scary shit, if you ask me. His bed was underwater and he had to sleep on his dresser. When he called 911, they asked him if he was on his roof and not to call for emergency assistance until the water was that high.

Glad to hear you're okay, bro.

Yeah, and I bet if you get hit this time, you'll be able to deal with it better than Sandy. That was the big problem with that storm...it really wasn't that bad of a storm compared to what hits the Southern parts of the US all of the time. It's just that it was a really unusual phenomenon for Jersey, and the government wasn't prepared to deal with it, and then was kind of making it up as they went after they found themselves in a bad situation.

Hopefully, you won't have to deal with it at all and you'll get missed. If not, I'm betting that everyone will know what to do this time.

Thank you for sharing, didn't know this existed!