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'Hysteria Is Starting to Spread' As Humanitarian Crisis Grows in Puerto Rico After Maria
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-us-virgin-islands-dominica-car ^ | 9/23/17 | Pam Wright

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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To: Kartographer

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.


41 posted on 09/24/2017 7:01:09 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: metmom

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.


42 posted on 09/24/2017 7:03:01 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Kartographer

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


43 posted on 09/24/2017 7:05:43 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
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...

You obviously don't live in the Northeast.

44 posted on 09/24/2017 7:33:37 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: trebb
...a lot of FReepers and "principled conservatives" will help them [try to turn this into Trump's "Katrina"] by demanding none of their tax dollars gets illegally spent via humanitarian relief for American Citizens.....


45 posted on 09/24/2017 7:35:40 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: Kartographer

Their leaders are extremely corrupt. Why would they be reliable in an emergency?


46 posted on 09/24/2017 7:53:39 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

“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.


47 posted on 09/24/2017 7:53:55 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ntnychik

And Cuomo didn’t help much apparently.


48 posted on 09/24/2017 7:55:04 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: dr_lew
What happened to hospital ships? Surely there is at least some equivalent in the U.S. Navy capable of responding!

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

49 posted on 09/24/2017 7:55:49 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625
Other Navy assault ships deploy to Caribbean:

After Irma, Navy Takes On Unusual New Mission In US Virgin Islands: Aid

50 posted on 09/24/2017 8:00:48 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: arthurus

Prayers for all.


51 posted on 09/24/2017 8:04:51 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

“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.


52 posted on 09/24/2017 8:06:21 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

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.


53 posted on 09/24/2017 8:07:22 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Kartographer

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.


54 posted on 09/24/2017 8:16:40 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Travis McGee

It say 3.4 million PR residents plan on escaping the misery by going to the U.S.


55 posted on 09/24/2017 8:42:36 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Vermont Lt

i went 17 years without power.


56 posted on 09/24/2017 9:31:27 AM PDT by old gringo (a wise monkey never monkeys with another monkeys monkey.)
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To: old gringo

There ya go.


57 posted on 09/24/2017 9:56:21 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Travis McGee

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.


58 posted on 09/24/2017 10:24:22 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Kartographer

We should help them help themselves. It’s too deadly for them.


59 posted on 09/24/2017 10:45:18 AM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: Kartographer

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!).


60 posted on 09/24/2017 2:31:25 PM PDT by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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