Posted on 09/28/2017 3:00:45 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
UPDATE - PUERTO RICO: No ATMs, no Cash, no Credit Cards working, No Power (75% of the Island), No Running Water (60% of the Island), No Gasoline, No Diesel. The US presence and aid is here, and there's a lot of personnel and US agencies involved, but unable to move from the ports & piers. Three (3) gasoline trucks were stolen yesterday.
When President Trump arrives in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, Oct. 3rd, he needs to bring with him around 10,000 soldiers with him. This image would be seared in people's minds and it would be akin to Teddy Roosevelt's arrival in Cuba on a horse backed up by thousands of fighters. GO TRUMP!
I would say that this also shows that one of the FIRST rules of being a Prepper is to NOT live somewhere where essential everyday items need to be flown or shipped in from great distances. (Plenty of places in America that fit this, too. Big Cities come to mind, right off top.)
Paradise can turn to Hell pretty darn quick!
LOL! I meant PR volunteers!
I’m still fixated on how smoothly things went in Haiti when The Clintons took charge and gave them all that money to recover.
*SMIRK*
I’m in San Juan, Puerto RicO RIGHT NOW.
I have running water. Good pressure and clean, potable.
I have gasoline.
I have cash.
My family is being fed three whole meals a day by our own hand. There are three open supermarkets within walking distance of my house. I can even get ice cream every afternoon from an itinerant vendor!
There’s a pizza place across a field from my house.
I have witnessed no riots. There are none.
I have witnessed no looting.
I live in midtown San Juan, what others would call the inner city, and nights are as quiet as in the country side.
My business is running. Air conditioned, telephones and internet up (on backup generator)
All my neighbors are pretty much the same. Everyone is helping each other.
And, believe it or not, I have been though a typhoon in Japan, and was there shortly after the tsunami of 2011 (September, specifically). At that time, all nuclear power plants were shut down and the whole country was suffering from critical electricity shortages. It was hot, it was miserable, and food was scarce. But you’re right. The Japanese handled it well. And so are we on the island.
Unbelievable that any Freeper can’t see beyond the filter of the press.
Not that Silvie’s mom’s situation is not accurate as described. But I can only relate my own situation.
And I had an ice cold beer for breakfast this morning!
Gd bless your mom. My little girl has Puerto Rican ancestry so I feel a kin with PR and one day hope to visit with her. Prayers up for the whole island.
Unbelievable that any Freeper can’t see beyond the filter of the press.
And enjoy your cold breakfast beer. Have a great day.
We were contemplating a move to PR years ago and in House hunting, all the houses were as you said and also had metal gate doors to the bedroom halls. They were decorative but eye opening.
Unfortunately.
No ATMs,
no Cash,
no Credit Cards working,
No Power (75% of the Island),
No Running Water (60% of the Island),
No Gasoline,
No Diesel... Three (3) gasoline trucks were stolen yesterday.
....AND YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY PUERTO RICANS!
Satellite photos show the night time glow from the lighting in San Juan and a location in southwest PR. Otherwise darkness rules.
Improvement Sept. 21st to 25th?
God bless your Mom and you worrying for her, SilvieWaldorfMD, and I pray PR gets the help it needs!
Puerto Ricans are citizens of the US by legislative act, the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917, also known as the Jones Act. Unlike citizens born in the 50 states which are constitutional citizens Puerto Ricans are granted citizenship through legislation. The difference is that Federal legislation only requires a majority of the US House and Senate plus a presidential signature to repeal an existing law.
Didn’t Trump just set aside the Jones Act in order to free up shipping? Does that negate citizenship?
LOL! She’s retired. She wanted to help.
NBC’s Peter Alexander asked Sarah Sanders the following [paraphrasing]: “Would President Trump consider postponing his trip to Puerto Rico next Tuesday until resources and supplies are put in place?” Sarah replied: “No, he’s going!” First of all, THE MSM DOES NOT WANT HIM TO GO TO PUERTO RICO BECAUSE THE ISLANDERS WILL BE CLAMORING AROUND HIM AND TREATING HIM LIKE A GOD, JUST LIKE THEY DID IN HOUSTON! Secondly, if he doesn’t go, the press will be badgering him, saying things like: “He’s a Racist! He doesn’t want to go because he hates Hispanics!” The man can’t win.... GO TRUMP!!
Some people would still consider us whackjobs because, after all, nothing that bad is going to happen to US so there’s no point in US being that prepped, therefore, we’re crazy tinfoil hat-ists.
You find out who your REAL friends are.
Nothing wrong with being a prepper, but any run of the mill sensible person and especially a homesteader or farmer, would just habitually have options to deal with stuff like this.
In fact as soon as I got married, we made sure we had alternative heat, lighting and cooking. Cash was in short supply since we barely made enough to pay the bills, but we did have piggy banks where we put our change every day.
During a sleepless night this week, I happened to run across a marathon of prepper program reruns. At the end of each episode the “experts” rated the preppers. Many were only about 50% prepared, I don’t remember any one predicted to survive more than a year - most only a few months.
Then the “experts” would rate the chances of the particular disaster as so small, one would wonder why prep at all.
My opinion, the purpose of the show was to send the message that there’s really not much need to do it, the people who try to prep are silly, and it’s nearly impossible to achieve, so why bother.
to whom did you send your donation?
All I can say is these people have never had their butt or life on the line where preparation saved it. Let them berate you they are fools
Right - it's hard to prepare for every emergency imaginable
Tell that to Puerto Rico - no water, no food, no communications, no power ,no cash, no ATM, etc., etc. (Hurricane)
Tell that to Venezuelans that have been without food, lack sanitary conditions, hospitals are running without electrical power or Medicines (Financial Collapse)
Tell that to the inhabitants of Vanuatu, whose towering volcano eruption displaced most of the inhabitants from their homes (Volcano)
Tell that to the Texans and Floridians who were, and are still without power and out of their homes . (Flooding)
Tell that to Montanans and Idahoans who were forced out of their homes due to wildfires and smoke. (Wildfires)
Rite ! You can't 'prepp' for everything, just DEFINE WHAT IS MOST LIKELY TO OCCUR AND PREPP FOR THAT !
In the medical profession it is called TRIAGE : selectively setting priorities for maximum success, while minimizing your losses !
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