Major corruption investigations ongoing in Puerto Rico as I write this. This was all happening BEFORE the hurricane. They Puerto Ricans are killing the Puerto Ricans.
I just spoke to my mainland son (the one in Special Forces) who has spoken with my son in Puerto Rico. So some phone service is working. He lives in a middle class suburb of San Juan. He says the water has been restored, and that the lines at gas stations, stores, etc. are unbelievable. For the moment he is OK, but I wonder how much food he has on hand. When I was caring for my late husband at home when he was dying from Alzheimers, I stored up about 3 months worth of food, so I would not need to go shopping at the end.
” Puerto Rico is an island that suffers from its position in the middle of the Caribbean and its physical separation from the U.S. Its roads were in disrepair and its electrical grid was antiquated PRIOR to the hurricane. The island has also suffered for Years from ineffective local government and rising local Territorial Debt.
The Navy used to operate a large Navy base there, Naval Station Roosevelt Roads. I spent six months on the island in 1993, but when the island’s population protested the presence of the training range at nearby Vieques Island, the Navy shuttered the base, taking $300 million a year out of the Puerto Rican economy.
If they still had that Navy base they’d be in better shape, but local politicos wanted it gone.”