Shows how much they care about their people...send people like McCain, Clinton, Obama, Guitierrez there to clean up the mess, maybe the Clintons will find some more ‘child trafficking’ to do:
Thanks for the video link.
see #9
Last night I had a 15 minute chat with my son in Puerto Rico before attending a PR fund raiser in my city. He is in the suburb of Guaynabo south of San Juan. He has had city water for 2 weeks but no electric. His wife has a generator at her work, and he has access to generators thru his work as a small building services contractor. So they get the batteries recharged and the laundry washed. He did not know how much of the grid had been restored, but when I said I read 15% a week ago he thought that sounded about right. Their children are back in private school and the public schools should restart in a week or two. He mentioned he has never drunk so much Gatoraid in his life. I suggested he could make a rehydrating drink by adding small amounts of sodium chloride, potassium chloride, baking soda, and epsom salts (magnesium chloride) to a gallon or quart of water like I used to do for my husband when he went to work on his boat in the hot son. One day hubby brought a little of his drink home. We were sitting at the table after dinner; he took a swig of the water and went, Yech! I don’t understand, this tasted fine at the boatyard.” So I guess the body knows what it needs when it needs it. I promised to text my son the exact formula after Googling for it. Then son said, “There is no baking soda to be found in PR.” He then explained he had been repairing damage at clients’ vacation condos and emptying their stinking refrigerators of rotten food resulting from loss of electricity and sitting for weeks in the heat. He also said he and wife are having trouble sleeping with heat and no electricity for AC. His brother on mainland has promised to send battery powered small fans and small solar powered garage lights to him. He says postal service has been restored, at least in his area. I forgot to ask him if he needs mosquito repellent and the Vitamin C which the PR government had been recommending to reduce symptoms of Zika and other mosquito borne viruses and diseases.
I relayed some of this information at the fund raiser. When asked what else people on the mainland could do he said, “Change the Jones Act which is increasing import costs in PR by 40%,” or at least suspend it for a couple of years until PR is back on it’s feet. I also asked how people in PR feel about statehood now. He believes that the majority still prefer to maintain their Commonwealth status.
Nice chart at Comment #16.