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Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily by zaroth on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:05AM (#15414555)
I'm sorry, that was meant to read "no local food or water" which is what the OP says.

I can't imagine 3.4 million people stick around with no electricity for 4-6 months, and no local economy. I did not at all mean to claim 3.4 million people have left already.

I am guessing if the electrical grid is truly destroyed and will take 4-6 months to rebuild as reported, how could that not lead to a mass exodus?

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Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily by emodendroket on Friday October 06, 2017 @09:13AM (#15416496)
A lot of people will leave (and a lot of people have been leaving because the economy's been in freefall and they've been imposing more and more extreme austerity measures to keep paying bonds), but the island will not by any stretch of the imagination be deserted.
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