Posted on 09/30/2017 6:23:38 PM PDT by angelrod
Col. Valle is a firsthand witness of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) response supporting FEMA in Puerto Rico, and as a Puerto Rican himself with family members living in the devastation, his passion for the people is second to none. “It’s just not true,” Col. Valle says of the major disconnect today between the perception of a lack of response from Washington verses what is really going on on the ground. “I have family here. My parents’ home is here. My uncles, aunts, cousins, are all here. As a Puerto Rican, I can tell you that the problem has nothing to do with the U.S. military, FEMA, or the DoD.”
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These folks need electricity.
Note what the fork lifts were delivering ...
Not wind generators, ... not solar arrays, ...
BUT Gasoline Powered Generators!!!
I laugh myself to sleep with that image.
#FakeNews MSM: “Puerto Rico suffers worst disaster in history!!! Why isn’t it fixed yet!?!”
It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government,” says Col. Valle.
They should have learned to drive a stick.
There’s the one infernal truth that the media likes to omit: there’s tons of supplies sitting there. But with roads blocked or destroyed, very limited gas or power to pump it, much less transport vehicles that are running and can navigate from Point A to Point B, all these inbound ships can do is offload at the ports and leave. It’ll require an airlift operation and occupying force of military and contractors to get some manner of distribution and infrastructure repair coordinated, and that’s no small potatoes, regardless of the scale. And, there’s the matter of so much of it having to be done via cargo and container ships. I’m sure Puerto Ricans are more than ready, willing, and able to roll up their sleeves and tackle it head-on, but just getting basic communications up and routes of transport open is going to take time to establish. What a Godawful mess there.
.... ALSO ..... PR Teamsters are refusing to deliver any supplies at all in hopes of creating a massive humanitarian crisis to bolster their leverage to FORCE a new and more lucrative contract deal. They dont want this crisis to go to waste ....
This is WHY I have a generous supply of emergency food, tools, camping gear, and clothes. PR is in the hurricane belt and people are sitting there like baby birds with their beaks out. Pathetic!
Go through the records and find everyone in the military who speak Spanish and can drive a deuce-and-a-half or larger truck.
We’re taking a truckload down to FL on Tuesday to be taken to PR. There’s just so much to do.
Lack of communication is a major problem for logistics. Some I’ve talked to are just simply lost there.
Then the mayor needs to drive one of those supply trucks behind a bulldozer and get the supplies to her people before they all die.
The labor unions actually tried similar EXTORTION tactics to stall the arsenal of democracy during WW2.
Actually, I think speaking Spanish would be a secondary requirement. If anyone who can drive a stick behind the wheel of something with more than four tires comes rolling in with pallets of bottled water and cases of Chef Boy-R-Dee and toilet paper stacked up in the bed, the inference is universal: help has arrived. No need to talk about the weather, then.
The port is a ten minute drive away or a one hour walk from old San Juan.
“There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload “
Pictures of this need to be made widely available.
I think gps should still work fine there. No need to speak Spanish. However when I visited most seemed bilingual.
Nothing new here. Teamster thugs are still Teamster thugs.
CNN and MSNBC want you to believe that nothing is being done in pr. Isn’t it sad that the amazing work of our first responders is being denigrated because they think that narrative will hurt Trump. It’s like communist Cuba/North Korea media.
Check out the video Trump just distributed:
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/914260261304860672/video/1
The US brokered a deal with the mob to keep the longshoremen from striking during the war.
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