'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

[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.

[Vaden]

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!).

[SaveFerris]

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.

[old gringo]

never had electric power til i joined the navy,but it really didn’t bother me you can’t miss something you never had.

[dfwgator]

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.

[hinckley buzzard]

We have used aircraft carriers for this purpose elsewhere but they may all be deployed in the Asian pacific at this time and unavailable for relief duty in the Caribbean.

[hinckley buzzard]

Three million people and 80 billion in debt. How did they even do that?

[SunkenCiv]

• Hurricane Maria has endangered the family of Puerto Rico born FReeper JRios1968 [update @45]
• Apocalyptic Flood: Puerto Rico River Rises 62ft ABOVE flood stage - Extreme Flash Flood
• Quick Puerto Rico Report (vanity)
• Donald Trump: Puerto Rico 'Absolutely Obliterated' by Hurricane Maria
• Trump says he'll visit storm-ravaged Puerto Rico
• Meanwhile, Trump Is Kicking Butt and Democrats Are in Trouble
• Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico's famous telescope, is battered by Hurricane Maria
• Arecibo Observatory Remains Offline After Being Buffeted by Hurricane Maria
• Hurricane Maria Damages Parts of Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory

Thanks Thanks Kartographer.

[Freedom56v2]

I saw something about it already—Joy Reid,

http://www.thedailybeast.com/puerto-rico-has-become-trumps-katrina

[dfwgator]

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.

[Freedom56v2]

Sad, but of course, the media will not cover Trump’s efforts on Puerto Rico :(

[SunkenCiv]

• Puerto Rico Officials Praise Trump Admin for Response to Hurricane Maria
• Trump declares emergency in Florida, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
• Clinton calls out Trump administration's response to Puerto Rico devastation [sez CNN, the Partisan Shills network]
  • EXPOSED: Hillary Clinton's Puerto Rico "Debt Relief" SCAM
• 'Nero' at the 'Petting Zoo': Joy Reid Claims 'Puerto Rico Is Trump's Katrina' [sez another Partisan Media Shill]
• Can the US learn from relatively poor Puerto Rico? It has much stricter voter ID laws...

[Freedom56v2]

Thanks...I had not seen a couple of these :)