> slap them up. Or take them down when a hurricane warning is announced
It's really just that simple.
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Puerto Ricans are used to doing a lot of labor to prepare for extreme weather events; you'll see them putting plywood on all their windows and other things like that. Part of the problem would be knowing that they could and need to do such things with solar panels, what to do, and having sufficient warning and tools. Specific loading and specifications for each installation should be communicated so that they know how to handle them
each specifically in these events. Seems plausible but needs a bit more human logic applied to it.
Having a bunch of missiles coming from every solar garden racking component that came loose in the region during a hurricane would not be good either.
All of this needs to be addressed. Hurricanes are Puerto Rico's version of California's Earthquakes. They prepare for those while we prepare for earthquakes, like we should, and like they should.
Here's an example of a lot of considerations on what to prepare for with solar panels, inverters, and racking, in one installation.
Do I have a fantasy that Elon's Solar Roof shingles are strong enough not to break in the wind? You see, that doesn't help, because if they dislodge and become airborn, they're still deadly and not in your solar garden any more, and furthermore, Puerto Rico doesn't have sloped shingle roofs. So the daydream fantasy takes a sharp turn there: I start thinking about solar singles that are fused into the concrete itself of which the buildings are made, which would tilt the roof construction and building construction practices of the island into incorporating more concrete roofs in their structures (presently they don't use concrete for many roofs because of the suboptimal material characteristics for concrete being roofing, but that may change if they integrate solar). Would it be as easy as splunking the existing Tesla Roof panel (with connections pre-connected to whatever connection materials necessary) down in wet concrete like a tile during concrete placement day, or would a special concrete blend panel be made? I presume existing solar tile panels would just crack in the concrete while it cures and during normal temperature size changes. This is the sort of thing I'd study if I were a super-rich Puerto Rican who was somehow still wed to being on the island and a geek (which, I must point out, is highly unlikely and rare in the population, probably on the order of 0).
