They can barely handle the logistics of dealing with what they already have in-country and waiting to be unloaded. Tell this malcontent to STFU.
Because Puerto Rico has large modern ports and ships can carry a whole lot more stuff?
In Germany 1948, the socialists/fascists had been defeated and was under occupation. The US Army effectively ran their government and it could quickly set-up and run a distribution operation without any interference
In Puerto Rico, the socialists/fascist politicians are in full control
Since the unions are holding the citizens hostage; airlifting is useless unless you plan on carpet bombing the island with relief materials.
Because Berlin was an isolate city. A city.
Puerto Rico is ab island ‘nation’ the side of Delaware.
Where are the Puerto Rican truck drivers?
Because the packages would be collected by thugs and the people that needed them wouldn’t get them, perhaps?
Puerto Rico is best reprovisioned by sea! Berlin was not... (not to mention the fact that our military airlift capacity is far smaller today).
Right. They have all the necessary supplies. It’s all sitting on the docks, some of it rotting. Why airlift? How about getting the mayor to handle the distribution better!
Because it ain’t Berlin.
Ask the Teamsters if they’ll haul the stuff?
Logistics, Logistics, Logistics!!!!
I remember years ago when they had those LiveAid concerts to raise money to get food and supplies to some countries in Africa. The supplies got there and then sat on the dock. It never occurred to these people they needed trucks and drivers to get the stuff inland. As a consequence some of those in power that were corrupt took control of some of those supplies and resold them somewhere else. So that ended up being a mixed bag.
Same here in PR, except the news reports are the Teamster drivers are on strike in a National Emergency.
Sorry the driver for the Red Ball Express are just not available anymore. The PR needs to step up.
Misinformed mews outlet. Plenty of volume arriving in PR.
Issue remains destruction and distribution.
Far ahead of where they were with Katrina 10 days later.
Did they ask the Puerto Rican Teamsters about this yet?
Well, if they had not demanded that the Navy leave 20 years or so ago, they might have had at least one more avenue of delivery.
This, the foundational assertion of the article, is false. The article is junk.
Next!
In Berlin there was a government that was not corrupt that could organize things.
In Berlin people and their leaders were grateful as opposed to the Mayor of San Juan.
I’m in Florida.
My street still has massive piles of plant debris from Irma.
WM emptied my available trash cans on Saturday.
Hopefully, they’ll empty them again on Thursday.
If Berlin was not landlocked and had a coast, there would never have been a Berlin Airlift because we would have sent ships instead of planes - which is a much more efficient way of shipping in bulk. Almost all our materials for D-Day were sent to England by ship!
The regular commercial distribution system outmatches anything the federal government could ever do.
Puerto Rican construction workers will clean up in more ways than one.
There is going to be a building permit bottleneck.
Here in Florida before Irma the wait was often about a month.