Since FEMA stepped in, we are sending some line crews down to help out.
No one trusted broke ass PR.
The Puerto Rican government gave out $100 million in government employee bonuses, while asking for $100 million in emergency funds from the Federal Government.
My give-a-damn meter is running at a fairly low level.
Temperature in PR this week is high 82-84 and high 40s at night. Hardly searing temps. They lost a month or two with the government not getting out supplies and workers refusing to lift a finger. If the infrastructure wasn’t so bad to begin with, things wouldn’t be so bad.
a town of 30,000 people still living without electricity in the mountains of central Puerto Rico
Isn’t this what the religion of Global Warming and going Green is all about? Living life without Electricity or Fossil Fuel Energy of any kind.
Doesn’t mean I don’t have sympathy for the people who are expecting their government to help out, but not getting it.
I can't imagine people going without power for so long in today's age. But then again, I have seen areas in Honduras that don't have any electricity and the women continue to wash clothes by hand in the river.
As an aside, cold kills more people than hot weather and right now here in S.E. Michigan the temperature is 0......Loss of power for any substantial length of time would be devastating.
This is what happens when you elect commie, Marxist and Socialist politicians. Now they’ve all moved to Florida to screw up that state. It’s a damn shame.
Decades of corrupt DEMOCRATIC politicians running the place eventually catches up.
The REAL downside is that many are leaving and streaming into Florida to become more dem votes.
I don't mean solar or anything trendy. I mean going back to the basics and also having the kinds of self-enclosed systems that exist for many isolated mountain cabins.
Maybe if they had paid the contractor that was restoring the grid they wouldn’t have pulled out, jus’ sayin’.
So what are the politicians of Peurto Rico doing about it?
I’ll tell you. They’re pulling a Katrina by sitting on their hands and letting their people suffer in order to make Trump and Republicans look bad. It’s extremely SPITEFUL and INHUMANE. And I am not just angry about how Peurto Rican suffering is being used as a political chess piece against Trump’s agenda but how Peurto Ricans are being treated.
Some of our fly-over country ice-storms leave our rural people without electricity, phone, cable, water and with blocked roads for up to 6 weeks during deadly cold weather.
And just keep putting those wires on poles! They MUST work faster so that they will all be back up so the next hurricane can knock them down AGAIN!
REAL aid would be to send them excavators.
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"""24 bottles of water and a cardboard box filled with basic foods such as tortillas, canned vegetables and cereal. """
Live on an island or in a remote area? Stock up dumass.
I see a chance of rain. Collect some. If you live on an island, you ought to be used to collecting rainwater. It's not like you can drill/dig a well.
Hawaii even gives guidance on rainwater catchment. http://sbcd.seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu/rainwater-catchment-project -- I don't see anything for PR. Not enough bright white people living there? Seems like I've watched brown people stand in line for water and food all my life. Guess I'm privileged like that.
Tortillas = flour+water and maybe some baking powder and oil/lard as optional.
Water, Beans, Rice, canned goods, oil/lard, sugar. The basics that will keep you alive. Fats will store for a year, all else virtually forever.
OR, just a variety of canned goods is all you need to survive for a while(consume the liquid in the can rather than drain) and they wouldn't have to wait two whole hours in the "searing" 77 degree sun (with constant sea breeze).
I spent over 30 days after Katrina and then got hit with a 450.00 bill on top of that. Who knew no power cost so much.
After an EMP attack (Noko?), the cities would empty out within 3 days (no more food). People I know seriously discuss what they would do if hundreds of thousands or millions of starving 80-IQ city refugees came by on foot, following the major highways.