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I have to move back to PR, what should I bring?

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This is pretty heartbreaking:

>> This gave me a thought, a bit off topic - your situation makes me more optimistic in the short term / next couple of months. If the school is insisting you come back, then they have achieved a “good enough” level of operations.

> Not really. The building has no light and classes are being taught in hallways. The ceiling is missing and there is water still in the classrooms. There is no a/c, so the rooms are suffocating in the heat. It is difficult for many to come to school or get access to internet to do homework. Many have complained about starting school in these conditions, but the school doesn't care. They are opening because they do not get any funding if the school is closed.

Definitely a multitool like a leatherman. I wish there was a check-in just for multitools on a plane since thats the only thing I can't bring with a carry-on. Obtaining a quality multitool in some countries can be hard/expensive.

This is maybe the thing I hate most about flying.

I carry my Leatherman everywhere, and it's helped me more times than I can count. Maybe it's just me, but I feel better knowing that I have a pretty complete toolkit on me at all times.

And no, it's not a security risk. In the post-9/11 world, passengers know that cooperating with hijackers is a potential death sentence and will fight for their lives. Cockpit doors are kept locked.

A group of people armed with pocketknives isn't going to be able to do much.

The title confused me for a second because there’s no indication this is /r/PuertoRuco. I initially read the title as someone going back into public relations.

I read it as pull request.

Me too, haha

This is why abbreviations should be avoided as much as possible, unless the writer can be almost certain that every reader will know the abbreviation.

Well, it was posted to /r/PuertoRico, so the abbreviation is pretty unambiguous within that context. It should have been expanded when posting this to HN, though.

This has all the signs of a failed state. A government (US) that won't and can't provide the basic recovery assistance after a major natural disaster.

In Puerto Rico’s case, would a centralized or decentralized power grid have worked better? When the power went out for my street a couple weeks back, I thought that decentralized grids would result in more redundancy and be less vulnerable to outages.

According to https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/10/23/16501164/puerto-... the main problem right now is that the power lines run through inaccessible places. No one wants to live next to a power station, and investing in better access roads would be really expensive.

Portable Pedal Power Generator: https://www.amazon.com/Generator-Emergency-Portable-Lightwei...

We used something like these at a festival in Denmark to allow people to charge their phones.

That one you found look very sturdy from the picture, but the ones we got would easily break. The most fragile part of it was the gears, they would break, and then we would have to replace it.

So please find a model that have easy obtainable spare-parts.

I did use this model exactly for 5 days power was out in Atlanta due to the hurricane prior to the one that hit PR. It didn't fall apart in those 5 days of using for 2-4 hours each day.

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