We live in a hurricane alley. These storms hit us frequently. WHEN WILL SOMEONE CATCH ON. Proper infrastructure installed once is far cheaper than the garbage systems they currently have in place. It has been put together with bailing wire and chewing gum. Underground wiring properly protected will survive these storms and stop the stealing of electricity and electrocutions that have become a Dominican way of life. It can be done. We have homegrown talent that can get it done. All we need is commitment, a national goal; our own moonshot. I say that because after all these years of talk these asshole politicians seem to think solving this problem is a moonshot. I HAVE HAD IT. Women and children first. Time to get out of Dodge. I would say last one tout turn out the lights but ...........

"hurricane alley?"

OOOO

Global warming alley.

But since the high and mighty in Washington and other slime denied global warming for almost 8 years when there was still time to do something about it, we must be polite when we speak.

The imperialist slime ... or the GOPs ... says they didn't know that if the globe warmed, the oceans and seas would warm, and If the oceans and sea warmed, the sea storms would grow stronger and more frequent.

But scientists predicted these calamities decades ago. So did Al Gore.

So, the imperialist slime recklessly increased global warming doing the last 8 years, as they lied and denied its existence.

Behold an abused mother nature gone completely mad.

But this is what the imperialist slime doesn't care about. It cares only about profits and investments.

It may be too late. Why are people so servile before bourgeois scum?

Horrible.

And look at what follows Hanna, as if Hanna and Gustav weren't bad enough.

Horrible.

But it's not an accident.

I have a better theory, the warming of the caribbean waters is due to all the refugee's peeing in the pool from their styrofoam rafts and make shift flotation devices trying to flee Dictatorship and tyranny. Makes about as much sense as the Commie Propaganda I just threw up on.

"I have a better theory, the warming of the caribbean waters is due to all the refugee's peeing in the pool from their styrofoam rafts and make shift flotation devices trying to flee Dictatorship and tyranny. Makes about as much sense as the Commie Propaganda I just threw up on."

oooo

These climatic anomalies are taking place all over the world, including the north and south poles, not just in the Caribbean.

But you feel you must grovel and bend over to your precious bourgeoisie who lied and denied the warming threat for decades.

This time your capitalist masters can't get you out of this fix.

And your masters are going to sell you out.

Belial; There ARE NO CLIMATE ANOMALIES that are any different than they were 75 years ago.
1926-1932 had the worst storms in the history of storm record keeping.
The biggest problem is that too many people have moved into areas along the coast and into high population cities, further exacerbating an already overstrained infrastructure.
Try doing a little EFFECTIVE and TRUTHFUL reserch on the ubject you rant about before opening your yap over something you obviously know nothing about.
That way you just might elevate yourself out of the cesspool you live in. It'll take you years to get rid of the stink, however.

TB

Two major storms in less than a week. This is the one time that a black out is justified. Whether in the US or the DR this is par for the course of the storms. A big swath of the US is without power because of Gustav. Having said that good infrastructure would only have a few problem areas not the whole island.

TB the commie schweinhund is not feeling well since his candidate is in the Scheisse and is beginning to circle the drain

But we have a METRO!

Hey josean welcome back ....just get out .....give em hell ....dont stay away so long....we could use a little levity here ....Rubi was asking for you

50% without power...isn't that considered a "good" day in this country??????

From DR1

Electrical promises

Electrical expert Luis Arthur summarizes several of the problems in the sector today in his column in El Caribe. For days, he has been pinpointing the problems for the newspaper's readers. Today he comments that given the fact that the government electricity sector has no plans, and no plants being installed to meet the present and future demand, the new proposal for a cable to feed power from Colombia is just "coating with sugar for the pill" we have to take. He comments that with half the money, several power plants could be installed, and predicted that President Fernandez would have white hair before the cable came to be.
He also criticizes that the proposed 700Mw of aeolic power is another chimera. He mentions that to approve the installations, sectors in government have been asking for large under the table payments, "a copy of what is happening in the tourism sector."

Continued

And he says that the incentives law that Congress finally passed does not provide encouragement to investors because of the distortion of making the governmental CDEEE the only entity able to purchase this power, leaving the companies to operate as another power provider, dependent on the CDEEE.
Arthur writes that time, political will and money are needed for the government to stop improvising. "Electricity has its well-defined policies that are known, and there is no room for politics," he writes. He laments: "It is difficult for a deaf man to hear, or more for a blind man to see, but in some way we have to get the message across to this man, who removes the good technicians and confirms the rats, so that he may understand that it is time to listen, that there have to be priorities and without energy we will continue to lose competitiveness and he will lose his political future."

For comments, write to luis@arthur.net

All the DR needs is about 400 shipping container generators ( costing much less than inefficient and costly cement plants favored by the bourgeoisie in the electrical private sector) located close to major consumers and mechanically switched on at peak hours and switch off immediately after the peaks.

Nicaragua, second only to Haiti in poverty, required only about 577 mini generators which are very, very powerful and, there, run more or less continuously with their hi-tech workings, for blackouts in impoverished Nicaragua to disappear and become a thing of the past, as other sources of supply in the country come on line.

Currently, the DR is talking about 6 mini generators on barges.

Get real.

The imperialist bourgeosie in the energy sector isn't going to generate enough juice to keep the lights on.

The state got to ,,, get it done.

The state is what is causing the problem now bubba.
Wake up