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The island right now, 70,000 people are currently being evacuated as fast as possible tonight because of a danger that a dam there is about to collapse. this is the guajataca dam. it was failing. 70,000 people live down stream of that dam. the national weather service in san juan sent out these urgent messages after they said the dam begun to fisher. flash flood emergency for a dam failure, that was followed very shortly thereafter by this dam operators report that guajataca dam is failing. then followed by this. this is an extremely dangerous situation. buses are currently evacuating as quick...

The national weather service sent out these messages in kick succession, flash flood emergency for a dam failure, followed by dam operators report the dam is failing causing flash flooding downstream on the river. this is a extremely dangerous situation buses are evacuating people from the area as quickly as they can, all areas surrounding the river should evacuate now, lives are in danger. these all caps warnings from the national weather service couldn't have been more clear. but it raised the question of how are people supposed to get the message with power done, almost no phone or internet...