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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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!).
I have wondered the same thing about many of their foreign locations.
I’m ready for a tiny house - one that will still accept my bedroom furniture, lol.
never had electric power til i joined the navy,but it really didn’t bother me you can’t miss something you never had.
Here it comes, the media push to turn this into Trump’s “Katrina”.
Of course they are ignoring what we’re already doing down there.
I saw something about it already—Joy Reid,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/puerto-rico-has-become-trumps-katrina
And the celebrities have already started:
Marc Anthony
Mr. President shut the ____ up about NFL. Do something about our people in need in #PuertoRico. We are American citizens too.
Sad, but of course, the media will not cover Trump’s efforts on Puerto Rico :(
Thanks...I had not seen a couple of these :)
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