How come Cuba has recovered 87% of their electricity

[malaise]

while so many folks in Florida still don't have power?

Saw that on Local 10 Florida.
Someone should tell Groper Don the Con that Cuba is recovering more 'bigly!

By the way where my sis and her family live in Miami Dade, their power is underground as part of changes made after Andrew. They never lost power.

[msongs]

1. because florida has a lot more power grid than cuba so it takes longer? nt

[malaise]

5. Valid point but I'm betting that Cuba is the only

island that was devastated that has recovered 87% of power - and it's bigger than all of them.
Cuba is amazing when it comes to organizing around hurricanes.

[linuxman]

2. What percentage of Cuba had it initially?

I'm assuming it's a much more involved affair in the U.S.

[Coventina]

11. I went all over the island last summer and didn't see anywhere

without power.

And I was in some pretty out-of-the-way places.

[malaise]

20. Cuba has 100% of electricity

and a well trained population

[madokie]

23. Cuba would be

one of, if not the very first, Island in that area that I'd want to go too. I'd love to spend a summer in the Caribbean but at my age with my health issues its out of the question. I'm healthy as a horse except for my lungs. I have severe COPD and I'm here to admit that my way as a young man pretty much put me here. Too much not paying attention when I should have

I'd love to visit Jamaica as Reggae is some of my favorite music, (real Blues fan here.) It gets me up out of my seat and dancing where no other music does that to me.



We're all humans so why can't we all just agree to disagree and get along for the betterment of all people. Why can't we do this as inhabitants of this Planet

[malaise]

24. Agreed bro

Wish your lungs were better

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Florida is somewhat larger and has twice as many people.

I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.

[procon]

4. Its all government owned electrical infrastructure in Cuba. Florida is mishmash

of uncoordinated private electric companies with different equipment, and maybe not enough workers or supplies on hand.

[malaise]

8. Yep the Cuban army was visible in the video clip

I'm still curious about their pre-hurricane plans

[bettyellen]

10. I read they had piles of supplies staged and ready to go before hand.

[malaise]

13. They could teach all of us about organizing for hurricanes

and matters public health as well

[Yupster]

16. Don't you wonder about 1,000 years ago

All the sudden a hurricane would come in and wipe out an island or a coastline.

I have a friend who is an Inca Indian. He said that's why the Inca didn't settle on the coast. Don't know if that's true or not.

[malaise]

17. Not living on the coast makes a lot of sense

You know hurricane forecasts are relatively new.
When Gilbert devastated Jamaica back in 1988, there was a restaurant that was built in the circular fashion of the region's indigenous people.

[Blue_true]

18. Inca art show lobster and other ocean food.

They may have not lived next to the water, but they used that natural resource.

Civilizations problem is insistence on building in natural floodplains. If humans worked with nature, New Orleans, Holland and many other places would not exist.

[SFnomad]

6. Florida was hit a day or two after Cuba as well ...

so even if both places fixed things at the same rate, Florida would STILL be behind Cuba.

[malaise]

7. That's a valid point

[Vinca]

9. I think the only way to surive down there with climate change is underground power and

concrete houses, preferably 12 feet off the ground.

[Turbineguy]

12. Cuz they're

evil commie pinkos.

Whereas us good capitalists go slower.

[malaise]

14. ROFL

[NWCorona]

15. Cuba isn't as backwards as the cons want us to believe.

[malaise]

19. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Rhiannon12866]

21. Underground is definitely the way to go - especially in hurricane prone areas

I live in a relatively new neighborhood and when we had a hurricane in these parts, we only lost power briefly while others - like the street where I grew up, built in the late '60s - were out of power for days. We need to expect these things and become better prepared - it's only getting worse.

[malaise]

22. +1,000