{"id":84227,"date":"2017-09-21T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84227"},"modified":"2017-09-21T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:10:08","slug":"officials-warn-puerto-rico-could-be-without-power-for-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84227","title":{"rendered":"Officials warn Puerto Rico could be without power for 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY DEVIN HENRY<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-img-wrp\">\n<div class=\"content-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/thumb_small_article\/public\/hurricane_maria_puerto_rico.jpg?itok=wZQadSHV\" alt=\"Officials warn Puerto Rico could be without power for 6 months\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"credits\">\u00a9 Getty Images<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-with-sidebar-wrp\">\n<div class=\"content-wrp\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Puerto Rico could be without electricity for up to six months following Hurricane Maria, the mayor of the island\u2019s largest city warns.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan Mayor Carmen Yul\u00edn Cruz\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/weather\/hurricane-maria-makes-landfall-puerto-rico-category-4-storm-n802911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told MSNBC<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0that the U.S. territory&#8217;s\u00a03.5 million people are \u201clooking at four to six months without electricity\u201d after Maria, a Category 4 storm, swept across the island yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe San Juan that we knew yesterday is no longer there,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossell\u00f3\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/latino\/351583-hurricane-maria-knocks-out-power-in-all-of-puerto-rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cwe are 100 percent without power\u201d following Maria.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that the storm, the strongest to hit Puerto Rico\u00a0in decades, devastated communities there, with more than 90 percent of homes destroyed in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency management officials declared an overnight curfew across Puerto Rico in the storm\u2019s wake. President Trump issued a disaster declaration for the territory Wednesday night, a move that will speed up relief efforts following the storm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not experienced an event of this magnitude in our modern history,\u201d Rossell\u00f3 said Tuesday, adding that the Trump administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency &#8220;have responded extraordinarily.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House said Wednesday that Trump \u201ccontinues to direct all necessary federal resources to protect the people of the United States territories affected by Hurricane Maria and to support response and recovery efforts with respect to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/351719-officials-warn-puerto-rico-could-be-without-power-for-6-months\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/351719-officials-warn-puerto-rico-could-be-without-power-for-6-months<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}