Lights Come On At Post-Maria Puerto Rico School, Glorious Pandemonium Results

The image is blurry but the joy is ot: A teacher rings a bell
in a Puerto Rican school that erupted into gleeful pandemonium
 this weekwhen electricity was finally restored, four months
after Hurricane Mariet

One of our biggest national shames is the response the United States has had to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Large swaths of the island still have no electricity, about four months after the hurricane blasted Puerto Rico.

At last report, at least 17 percent of the island still had no power because of the storm. If the U.S. allowed a mainland state to go that long after a disaster without electricity, there'd be rioting in the streets.

There's plenty of blame to go around for the slow response in Puerto Rico.

In any event, a viral video that surfaced this week both enrages me and fills me with absolute joy. Enrages, because it shows the power coming back on after nearly four months. What the hell took so long?

Absolute joy, because this happened in a school. The teachers and students were in there, doing the best they could without electricity, and then what seemed impossible happened: The lights flickered back on.

The pandemonium in the school that resulted is a wonder to behold. Watch and enjoy:

First Snow REALLY Excites This Dog

This young dog saw snow for the first time. Seems
to like it. 

The weather pattern that is setting up will bring, as I said yesterday, cold and snow to the eastern third of the United States beginning later this week.  

The same weather pattern has brought wintry weather to Great Britain, too, (along with another bout of strange winter warmth in Greenland, with temperatures of 40 degrees way up not far from the North Pole. )

Anyway, some of us our dreading the onslaught of winter, others are joyous. This viral video shows Truffles the dog in England seeing snow for the first time. I think Truffles likes it.

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