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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

6. Fundamental Lessons of Hurricane María

Author : Ariel E. Lugo

Published in: Social-Ecological-Technological Effects of Hurricane María on Puerto Rico

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

When infrastructure and government service collapse in a technologically advanced society, people are first stunted but soon react to assure survival. After María, the importance of individual and community action at a time of need became a lesson that was obvious to all Puerto Ricans. This lesson was made more relevant in light of another lesson, that of the failure of governance. The conditions after María underscored the importance of governance to a society. Puerto Ricans understood and witnessed how corruption was affecting them directly by turning governance against their interests. A third lesson was that after passing through the consequences of María, which are still in progress, business as usual is not the path to a healthy, resilient, and just society.

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Footnotes
1
One thousand unemployment requests per day post María vs. one to two thousand per month pre hurricane.
 
2
Demand for bottled water tripled from 20% to 60% of the soft drink market.
 
3
In contrast, providers of other services suffered such as taxi drivers, ice cream vendors, and TV anchors.
 
4
One thousand and two hundred traffic lights were affected by the hurricane, 22.58% were functioning a month later and 27% 100 days after María. Lack of electricity affected 220 fixed traffic lights. At 200 days after María, the situation had not changed because as many “fixed” intersections failed when energized as were energized successfully.
 
5
In the state of public confusion and isolation following María, private telecommunication companies would not communicate their situation, opting only to disclose that they were working on restoration.
 
6
A notable example is the case of Edison Rivera de Jesús, a farmer from the municipality of Maricao, who has been without electricity since hurricane Georges, 19 years ago. The reason is that he does not have money to pay for the eight poles required to connect his home, however, only one pole was lost during the hurricane.
 
Metadata
Title
Fundamental Lessons of Hurricane María
Author
Ariel E. Lugo
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Social-Ecological-Technological Effects of Hurricane María on Puerto Rico

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-02386-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-02387-4

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02387-4_6