Hurricane Maria

As David Muir of ABC News was leaving San Juan to go to Las Vegas after the massacre, he visited a high-rise apartment he had been to earlier; thirteen floors, no power, no food, little relief in sight for the residents.
FEMA/Military had not visited.

They didn't even know that the President had been there, today!
 
Just wondering what all these news people do there. They have food and water and shelter. One of them was talking about how a woman started crying when she saw them pull up and then begged on t.v. to get medicine for her husband. Do they just report that and walk away? Take these sick people to hospitals. When you show up all clean and fed, bring the food and medicine. They follow the dotard around to show him throwing paper towels. And then they leave with him.

Which hurricane (so many, I forget!) did they show the reporter helping pull people into boats? The reporters in PR act like they are on some foreign island showing how bad the natives have it and then remark about how they are US citizens.
 
Good reporters call attention to the situations they find; many of which may not be addressed.

How would we know otherwise; particularly when TPTB want us to believe that everything is "Great"?
They do as much as possible to help the people they speak about.

For example, Dr. Gupta (CNN) was bringing medicine to needy people in Puerto Rico.
He said that the agencies charged with the responsibility should be doing that; and they had not been.
Therefore preventable deaths are beginning to occur; and that the problem will only get worse.
 
Buzz said:
Elon Musk wants to help rebuild Puerto Rico's electricity grid and the island's governor sounds interested.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41524220
Click to expand...

God, I hope so.

Greetings from Puerto Rico! I have to thank all of you for providing support during these times. It has been interesting, to put it mildly. The island is still struggling, and the distribution of food and water to the people who need it the most still hasn't been done well. We have staff that have gone to the Emergency Operations Center at the Convention Center here in PR and they say that it's just incredibly chaotic. This is going to be very hard for all of us.

Some of our staff started working this week and next week we will fully open. I can't imagine what it will be like. Meetings with the Team Leads are just painful. We are all discombobulated. I know I'm barely functional. I have 7 people, 4 dogs and a cat in my house. Yes, I have gained two nieces since last week. I'm used to living with just my daughter! I need space! I need quiet! I need some down time!

Joking aside, we all are trying to do the best we can. My mom is cooking dinner. We do breakfast. We take turns doing laundry. My sister is dealing with the diesel situation. My niece gets the water. We are doing OK. My living room has become a pseudo laundry. We have tied rope to the windows to improvise a clothesline so that we can dry our clothes. My nieces' underwear is everywhere! I just avoid the room at all costs.

My four year old is having a blast. She loves having all the people in our house. I'm the one who needs a vacation.

The less said about the orange one's visit, the better.

Anyway, this is going to be a long recovery. We will not be the same. I hope we change some things for the better. And I hope people don't die because aid never got to them. It's so sad to look at pictures and to hear stories. It's been so tough. But as I say every time, I'm one of the lucky ones.
 
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Hugs to you and yours @Jimena and to everyone in the Caribbean who was affected. Thanks for checking in and letting us know how you are doing.
 
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Hi all again,

Thanks for all your offers. They're so appreciated! We don't need anything, really. We have food, water, a clean house, a generator... I'd encourage you to donate to any organization that can provide services locally, especially to the mountain towns.

As to the mail, it is partially working. FedEx and UPS suspended services this week and they are delivering what they had stored since September 18. They're supposed to start accepting packages again next week.

I wanted to post this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-veteran-storm-chaser/?utm_term=.e023cf0edcd7

It's an article of a storm chaser who stayed in Palmas del Mar in Humacao, PR. My family has an apartment there. The video embedded in the article shows the full force of the hurricane winds. It's crazy from minute 11 to 14. Amazing to have lived through that.
 
Jimena, thanks for all the updates. Hang in there. Love to you all.

I have read that it is better to send money rather than things to PR. So I will be making another small donation this weekend. I wish I could do more.

Hugs.
 
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The Jones act waiver has expired. Homeland security and the Trump admin will NOT renew the waiver and the law will remain.

Just in case PR did not know who side the Homeland security and Trump admin were on, now you know. Money over compassion.
 
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