Posted on 09/23/2017 11:08:07 PM PDT by Kartographer
"Hysteria is starting to spread. The hospital is about to collapse. It's at capacity," Mayor Jose Sanchez Gonzalez of the north coastal town of Manati told the Associated Press Saturday, crying. "We need someone to help us immediately."
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told The Weather Channel they were attempting to reach the most remote areas of the island by helicopter, as travel has been crippled by debris and downed power lines on Puerto Rico's roads. Officials said Saturday they still could not communicate with more than half the territory's towns.
Local newspaper El Nuevo Dia reported Saturday evening that the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were attempting to take control of a tanker loaded with fuel that was adrift in the sea near Salinas. The agencies are concerned that a spillage could occur should the tanker run aground.
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I was writing to a relative the other day about how much longer it is going to take to get PR up and running again.
After two major hurricanes you are not just going to walk into Home Depot and buy a million miles of wire to rebuild the power. And even if you could it is going to take weeks to get it to a port, find a ship, and deliver it to a port that also had its infrastructure destroyed.
By that time, they will be screaming racism and unfairness.
Think about the phrase, “Wars are won with logistics.” So aren’t disasters.
Several years ago, there was an October snow/ice storm in New England. For the first time in my life I went ten days without power.
I vowed that week that I would never, ever, go through that again.
Crisis grows in Puerto Rico as towns without water, power and phone service
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/23/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-communication-lines-dam
You obviously don't live in the Northeast.
Their leaders are extremely corrupt. Why would they be reliable in an emergency?
“Trump’s Katrina”
it would be funny as shite if the enemedia tried that. First, things are way too chaotic and unstable for them to actually want go their right now for their own camera footage and “correspondents on the ground”. Second, almost no one in the U.S. gives a shite about PR. I bet more than 75% don’t even know where it is on a map.
And Cuomo didn’t help much apparently.
There's also the Amphibious Assault Ships, like the USS Wasp. She has facilities for up to 600 patients, can accommodate a bunch of helicopters on her huge landing deck, and has an internal dock which can hold Air Cushion Landing Craft which can transport supplies and men from the ship all the way onto the beaches.
The Wasp is currently deployed giving assistance to the Leeward Islands, which were also heavily hit
After Irma, Navy Takes On Unusual New Mission In US Virgin Islands: Aid
Prayers for all.
“Sadly, Puerto Rico is a lot like Cuba, badly managed by corrupt liberal, socialist, politicians of all stripes. They have no young people (they all have left to live better lives in the USA), they are bankrupt, and their public infer-structure is poorly maintained or non-functioning.”
This is why the democrats keep pushing for Puerto Rico statehood.
He is a New York street kid and he knows how valuable Puerto Ricans living in NY, NJ & Florida have been to the USA economically and in supporting the USA military, big time!!! Folks from PR are like the Cubans living in Miami & South Florida, loyal, hard working American citizens that love America!!!
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Maybe a few are, but for the most part they aren’t. What I know for sure is that the good Cubans don’t like to be identified as Cuban, they like to be identified as Spanish. Even they can’t stand Cubans. The South Americans really despise Cubans.
When G-d and thanks and commitment to G-d are missing, humans have only human instincts at moments they are most in need of a higher calling. In times of cataclysmic stress, mayhem can result, like Noah explained he saw in his time.
It say 3.4 million PR residents plan on escaping the misery by going to the U.S.
i went 17 years without power.
There ya go.
I church today someone who was on a missions trip to the Dominican Republic was sharing what it was like when Maria blew through.
They also said that there’s no electricity, no water, no nothing in Puerto Rico.
We should help them help themselves. It’s too deadly for them.
Just as anyone with a brain knew it would. For that matter, it’s been spiraling for a few decades. Now they will use this to push for statehood even harder (need more money!) or for another bailout (need more money!).
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