Posted on 10/09/2017 4:38:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The Department of Defense took over the distribution of hurricane relief from government officials in Puerto Rico this weekend after local mayors failed to appropriately disperse the emergency items to the territory’s 78 municipalities, The Miami Herald reported Sunday.
According to The Herald, food, water, and medical supplies were previously delivered to 10 regional staging sites in Puerto Rico, but the mayors did not coordinate properly to distribute the large containers of relief at the staging sites.
Instead, 10 to 20 soldiers will be posted in every municipality with vehicles and logistical support, where they will deliver relief to every neighborhood.
“We need to push it directly to the barrio to ensure that everyone’s getting it,” Brig. Gen. Jose J. Reyes, assistant adjutant general of the Puerto Rico National Guard said. “They will have some vehicles. They will have radio communications as well as logistics support…. They are going to be living there. They are going to be operating 24/7.”
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The classic: Democrats on an escalator
Regarding.....?
Any updates on the Teamsters power grab down there, by any chance?
U.S. military taking over the relief operations in Puerto Rico. I’m guessing this is where those military aircraft you reported a few days ago were heading.
But on-the-ground reports from PR will tell the truth.
Most likely. See stuff going outbound often out here.
Teamsters refusing to work.
The Real Truth about Puerto Rico...(Only 2 minutes long)
https://youtu.be/FBna_oHXetc
Getting the military in there early is probably a good thing. People are so stressed with just helping their own families survive, that they probably do not have much energy for going to Mayors to volunteer to move bulk supplies around. The link below lists a lot of true? statistics about how much is and is not working now. You can check yourself, but I think it said only about 1/6th of the roads had been cleared. Water is also in short supply for many, not to mention food.
https://www.axios.com/85-of-puerto-rico-is-still-without-power-2494753594.html
None.
But my Dad has stated from two days after the hurricane hit that the US Military and FEMA have always had a strong presence.
What are they going to say? That they can take care of themselves? It's inconceivable that by this point they didn't have hikers brigades bringing the supplies in anywhere that wasn't totally cut off.
——People are so stressed-—
As a matter of fact, many just do not know what to do. The magnitude of the destructive change is overwhelming.
A strong leader is needed to provide the way forward
I have found this site, Univision, which has an interactive map showing each of the municipalities in Puerto Rico. You click the one you want and then information appears below the English introduction, in Spanish about what is being done, what is open, where one can get help or not, in the municipality clicked. Send this to anyone trying to find out more about a place where their relatives are living.
Thanks gleeaikin. Family ok?
I was fortunate enough to take a few visits to the Caribbean in the 1960s. At that time, most of the islands were still under Colonial government. They ran very well and were very safe. I’ll draw my own conclusions.
My son has texted,”Family is OK.” My son on the mainland has spoken with him twice on cell, water was restored last week. They were in a sturdy building with only some wind blown water damage. When I phone I get a few rings and message or message immediately with no rings. If curious you can click Guaynabo on the interactive map of the link in my previous comment. It is the area where President Trump visited.
Except that in Martinique in 1902 the politics of the French national assembly in which the island had representation reared it’s ugly head. The politicians urged people to stay in San Pierre in order to vote when Mt Pelee was smoking and erupting on a regular basis. Then they had a terrible pyroclastic flow (think Mt. St. Helens). In 3 minutes virtually all the population of over 30,000 people was dead. The city was only 4 miles from the crater. Then refugees were given a frank a day to survive in safer locations if they were white but only 65 centimes a day if they were colored. After 3 months, despite the strong warnings of scientists that more pyroclastic eruptions were likely, the subsidy was stopped and people were forced to move back home near the volcano, especially Morne Rouge. Around 2,000 additional people were killed when the scientists were right. I wonder how the people of Martinique felt about colonial government for many year thereafter? Note, I am working on a novel about these events and related volcanic events at that time period. See video of pyroclastic eruption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP2dreOI8gI
When I think back, the islands that were well-managed were under British or Dutch rule.
If he had done that then the liberals would be screaming that he was a dictator and was “taking control” of Puerto Rico. Somehow racism would have been the mantra, he didn’t believe Puerto Ricans were capable because of racism or something along those lines.
It doesn’t matter what he does or doesn’t do- the liberals will twist it for their agenda.
The prisoner (short term trouble maker) was one of very few who survived within the city. About 100 give or take survived exposure to the pyroclastic blast. A few sailers and passengers in the harbor, and people on the outskirts of the city and those already fleeing who may have been burned, but not fatally. A few in the city died horribly after a few hours of torment, ironically the science teacher who was encouraged to write that the city was in no danger. It is a terrible and dramatic story. I found a 1903 “coffee table book” a few years ago and have assembled more material to write a scientifically accurate historical novel. I just need to find the time to travel to Martinique and St. Vincent where over 1,000 died when their volcano blew in the same 24 hour period. Then a trip to France to research the behavior of the “better” classes of Martinique who liked to travel there for clothes and entertainment. Several thousand died in Guatemala when a volcano there blew within a few months. The whole Caribbean Plate was very active that year. The link below has much scientific detail, not much political detail.
https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-may-8-1902-deadly-eruption-mount-pelee
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