Posted on 09/12/2018 12:16:07 PM PDT by syriacus
FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers raided a warehouse last weekend belonging to the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority. Months after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island FEMA has been bringing men and material to the island to get the electric grid up and running but have been unable to get electricity to everyone due to a massive shortage of necessary equipment.
It seems PREPA (Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority) was stockpiling and hording 9sic) materials that were hidden from aid workers who have been trying to restore power to the island. USACE (United States Army Corps of Engineers) spokesperson Luciano Vera verified that federal officers were accompanied by armed security during the raid.
According to Vera, 2, 875 pieces of critical material along with sleeves of full-tension steel were just some of the materials recovered. The federal government began distributing supplies immediately to contractors.
Many contractors from the U.S. complained about the lack of rebuilding materials. It seems PREPA was making things extremely difficult and many of the workers just stood around at times. With the lack of supplies there wasn’t much headway to be made and things should have been moving much faster.
Mayors from around the island of Puerto Rico have been using municipal budgets to purchase grid restoration supplies.
Meanwhile, PREPA seemed to have many of these supplies stockpiled.
PREPA, who is Puerto Rico’s self-regulated power provider, is compromised by a majority of political appointees. Governor Ricardo Rossello has been in favor of privatizing the power company and many other government services on the island.
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” Despite the horrific waste and the tragedy of having all the affected people without power for months and months, it’s cheaper to dump all the gear and supplies in a warehouse and let the local util co deal with it as they will. “
Completely WRONG in my view! You can’t continue to countenance the government corruption there. Personally, I’d create a GITMO look alike there, and then cut them loose. Revoke their citizenship and let them sink or swim on their own. If they want to become a Ch*nk or Cuban satellite, let them try. If the PR’s hate white people, and trust me, I’ve gone there on business, and they truly hate the US Mainland citizens, let’s see how they fare being lead around by the nose by the Red Chinese. PR today is no different than Mexico in the way it’s governed. Your idea is simply doing what we’ve done for a century or more, expecting somehow it will resolve itself? Get serious. Trump is President because he’s intent upon not doing the same things over, but rather seeking new solutions.
If they still had the materials, they obviously weren’t selling them...maybe they planned to some day...or, maybe just say “the problem isn’t fixed yet, we need more.”
And they signaled their hand when they were doing a crappy job of “distribution” directly after the storm....hope the Feds can bitch slap some of those in charge into the next century.
That's pretty young for a USACE spokesman, most kids don't even speak at that age...
“That’s pretty young for a USACE spokesman, most kids don’t even speak at that age...”
LOL
Yes.
Boom
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