Puerto Rico braces for new hurricane season
San Juan, June 2: Puerto Rico is bracing for a new hurricane season just eight months after hurricane Maria, a category 4 storm, slammed into the island causing a major electricity crisis, the media reported.
Maria hit Puerto Rico in September and wiped out the US territory's power grid, leaving the entire island in the dark, reports CNN.
With the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane season under way as of Friday, the desperation among those still without power had led some to take deadly risks to get it back.
"You see it in the eyes of the people, the frustration," Utuado Mayor Ernesto Irizarry told CNN on Friday.
Irizarry said that his city was not prepared for another storm.
Authorities in the cities of Arroyo, Bayamon, San Juan, Anasco, Salinas and Toa Baja said the vulnerable power grid would be the biggest issue if the island was hit soon.
Just weeks ago, an island-wide blackout was caused by a fallen tree, according to the Puerto Rico Power Authority (PREPA).
"I think the most honest thing to say about our grid is that it's weak or fragile," Walt Higgins, the new CEO of PREPA, told CNN.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expects the season, which began June 1, to be "near-or above normal" -- but not to the same degree seen last year.
Aerial view reveals hundreds of homes is the island country still depending on blue tarps to provide shelter in homes.
While the US Army Corps of Engineers has completed the majority of debris removal, the cleanup continues.
Hurricane Maria was one of the worst natural disasters on record to affect Puerto Rico. Sixty-four people were killed in the island.
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Pregnant cow beheaded, calf mutilated in Karnataka
Uttara Kannada (PTI): Miscreants beheaded a pregnant cow, cut off its legs and mutilated its calf here, sources said on Monday.
They took away the cow’s body and left behind its head and legs, and the calf.
According to the police, the incident occurred at Kondakuli, Salkodu village in Honnavara Taluk of Uttara Kannada district.
They said the cow belonged to Krishna Achari, who had left the animal for grazing on Sunday.
On Monday, when Achari went searching for the cow, he found its head, legs and the mutilated body of the calf, they said.
Police registered a case against unknown miscreants under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and started an investigation.
This comes close on the heels of severing the udders of three cows in Chamarajpet in Bengaluru and injuring the tail of a cow in the temple town of Nanjangud in Mysuru.
Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara ordered an inquiry into the incidents of attack on cows with the BJP and Hindu organisations raising their concerns over it.
“We have to find a solution to this. This morning I gave instructions that we have to take this seriously and we have to identify people who have such a mindset," Parameshwara said.
He further said that he has ordered the police department to find out whether such people belong to any organisation, do it individually or is there any provocation behind it.
The BJP blamed the Congress government for being lenient towards the fanatic elements.
Party state president B Y VIjayendra said the Honnavara incident has made everyone hang their head in shame. “Yet, the Home Minister is pretending that the law and order situation is good here. The Siddaramaiah government is showing a soft corner for these anti-nationals, who have no fear. The state government and the Home Minister should have woken up by now," he stated.
Alleging that the law and order is deteriorating, he said a “communal atmosphere" is being created in the state.
ಗೋ ರಕ್ಷಣೆ, ಈ ನೆಲದ ಮಾನವ ಧರ್ಮದ ರಕ್ಷಣೆ, ಈ ನೆಲದ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಯ ರಕ್ಷಣೆ, ಕೋಟ್ಯಂತರ ಜನರ ಭಾವನೆಯ ರಕ್ಷಣೆ ಎಂದು ಪೂಜಿಸುವ ನಮ್ಮ ಕನ್ನಡ ನಾಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಚಾಮರಾಜಪೇಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಕ್ಷಸಿ ಮನಸ್ಥಿತಿಯ ಪಾಪಿಗಳು ನಿರ್ದಯವಾಗಿ ಹಸುಗಳ ಕೆಚ್ಚಲನ್ನು ಭೀಕರವಾಗಿ ಕತ್ತರಿಸಿದ್ದ ಅಮಾನುಷ ಕೃತ್ಯ, ಬಳಿಕ ನಂಜನಗೂಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಆಕಳ ಬಾಲ… pic.twitter.com/rZvdRqovqP
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