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By Kevin LuiUpdated: September 22, 2017 5:30 AM [ET] | Originally published: September 21, 2017 1:54 AM EDT;Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico directly on Wednesday, landing as a Category 4 hurricane in the town of Yabucoa with sustained winds of up to 155 mph 250 km/h . The stanley cup storm destroyed hundred of homes and knocked out power across the island, reports the Associated Press AP .Ricardo Rossello, the island governor, has imposed a daily curfew between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. through Saturday to allow for recovery operations. The government said at least two people on the island were killed during the storm, reports AP.The entire island is now in a total blackout as a result of the storm, with recovery in some parts not expected for an extended period of time.Once we ;re able to go outside, we ;re going to find our island destroyed, warned Abner Gomez, the island emergency management director, according to AP. Here what you need to know.What happened Power was gradually knocked out as Mar stanley cup ia pummeled Puerto Rico, according to Vox. About half of all customers of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority PREPA , the island sole p stanley cup ower supplier, reported a loss of power at 4 a.m. local time Wednesday; by noon, the outage spread to all of PREPA 1.5 million customers.How could a storm knock out power across the whole island Puerto Rico power grid was already in bad shape even before the 2017 hurricane season. PREPA 82 Tplw Detroit: America s Emerging Market
Co-creator David Harris Smith carries hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot, during its introduction to an American audience at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. on July 16, 2015.Stephan Savoia鈥擜PBy Benjamin Snyder/FortuneJuly 17, 2015 2:06 PM air max EDTThere a robot out there with the goal of hitchhiking from one side of the U.S. to the other. Called hitchBOT, the human-like robot has already made treks across Cana nike dunk da and Europe.It started its tour of the U.S. on Friday, beginning in Salem, Massachusetts and with plans to eventually get to San Francisco, California.Because the robot cannot move on its own, it relies on the kindness of strangers to pass it along.We want to see what people do with this kind of technology when we leave it up to them, according to Frauke Zeller, one of the creators, in an interview with the Associated Press. It an art project in the wild mdash; it invites people to participate.It has a really low-tech look to it, something we dubbed the yard-sale aesthetic, said David Harris Smith, the second asics creator. The head is actually an acrylic cake-saver.The robot does have a GPS embedded so that its location can be tracked. It also takes photos every 20 minutes to document the journey. Photos are posted on social media hitchBOT has 30,000 followers on Twitter .We want to create something that has a bit of narrative to it, a sense of adventure, Smith said to the publica |
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