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Bronx elected officers elevate considerations following Puerto Rico islandwide energy outage – Bronx Occasions

On Dec. 14, 2017, an electrical utility crew works on a line greater than three months after Hurricane Maria. Picture vichinterlang/Getty Photographs Bronx elected officers with ties to Puerto Rico are sounding the alarm over the territory’s failing power infrastructure amid a current two-day island-wide blackout. Though energy was restored to almost all 1.5 million prospects by the morning of April 18, the issue goes far past a single incident. The island has a notoriously unreliable power system and has seen little enchancment since Hurricane Maria in 2017, when Congress allotted billions to improve and restore the grid and arrange…

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Temps are going up in an enormous method — and so are the pollen ranges

With cloudy skies and temperatures hovering solely within the 50s, Monday put the brakes on this weekend’s spring surge. For these of you who reluctantly traded your t-shirt for a jacket, you’ll be again in a t-shirt earlier than you understand it. Saturday’s excessive was 85, squarely in mid-June territory so far as temperatures go.  We gained’t fairly get that heat once more this week, however we are going to return to the higher 70s on Tuesday. That’s actually justification for shorts and t-shirts once more. Simply watch out for excessive tree pollen within the air. Bushes are blooming throughout city,…

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