Jesabel Y Eddie

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Before Hurricane Maria hit in September of 2017, Puerto Rico's rickety electric grid was a notorious headache. After the storm, it was a crisis. This is the story of how a pair of star-crossed lovers came to see nuclear as the unlikely solution to Puerto Rico's energy woes, and how their vision for the island might be changing the way we approach power... even if their plan never comes to pass. Outside/In needs your help. Click here to find out how you can support the show. There's lots of great swag to choose from (so check out the thank-you gifts!) but for $20 a month, we'll send you a ticket to an Outside/In Trivia Night! Test your knowledge of the natural world, share an evening with Sam and the rest of the team, and support the podcast you love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Jessa Vajevo Rivera and I am from San Juan Puerto Rico and I was
0:07.0	San Juan Puerto Rico and I was raised in the Barrio, it's called Barrio Sanlana, and I was raised by my grandmother who was a community organizer and it was normal to me to like
0:28.1	there's something going on in the community so we have to organize and help.
0:36.0	My name is Eddie Gera, and I was born and raised in a small town in the west of Puerto Rico.
0:43.6	It's called San Sebastian.
0:45.8	So I grew up a little bit about my family.
0:48.8	I grew up in a Pentecosto, very religious family, very conservative family. My father was a chaplain also and I've
1:01.3	always been very involved in my church and it was very important to me.
1:05.7	Hey outside and listeners meet Jessabel and Eddie.
1:12.4	Like many great love stories, theirs starts somewhere romantic.
1:16.0	It was October 23rd of 2008 when I gave a a we I organized a public speaking public speaking yeah technical writing a session
1:30.6	event right a workshop.
1:32.6	And I was, by then I was the president of a student
1:35.5	organization for the American Concrete Institute, all right?
1:39.3	And it was part of my civil engineering program. And that night I met her, but it was more of a, hello, how are you, and that's it. But very professional, right?
1:50.0	I was on mission. I was like, I'm a. This would be in this this topic is interesting for my students. So like I was on mission. So I think I we talked and it was all business.
2:02.8	It was all business.
2:03.8	Yeah.
2:04.8	Nothing else.
2:05.8	Very boring.
2:06.8	We didn't see each other again on to my last day, my very last day. I finished classes, I finished finals, and then I saw her at the in the streets where everybody
2:29.2	gathers in the in the town of Malagwais when they are done with finals, I saw her dancing salsa in the streets.
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