Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot

[KissMy]

Dead, injured, starving & thirsty people without communications, fuel, equipment & roads can't transport shipping containers. The US military had communications & all the resources available, but were never given the orders to do the job. CIC Trump Failed to Lead!!!

 

[depotoo]

Dead, injured, starving & thirsty people without communications, fuel, equipment & roads can't transport shipping containers. The US military had communications & all the resources available, but were never given the orders to do the job.

Bull. They did their jobs, the best they could. If anyone was expecting the feds to be able to step in and completely restore the island, after it had been neglected by their own govt for decades, you are fooling yourself.
They even went so far as to transfer those that wished to leave, to the mainland.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

But, hey, it's all Trump's fault, right? Certainly the incompetent, corrupt government of Puerto Rico had nothing to do with it.

He said some of the materials arrived after the National Guard ended its mission in May. He could not explain why no other agency distributed the materials after that.

But the head of the elections commission said that he has been calling the governor’s office and the National Guard regularly inquiring about plans to distribute the material, to no avail.

Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot

Oh, for fuck’s sake. There were thousands of such containers delivered. The problem at the time was delivering them to where they were needed...

There's a right-wing conspiracy that union truckers are refusing to deliver crucial supplies in Puerto Rico — here's the truth

Valle said: "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."

The main reason for the shortages is that local truck drivers have been displaced and are difficult to contact, due to fallen power lines. Puerto Rico is also dealing with blocked roads and diesel fuel shortages.​

... that about a dozen or so containers out of thousands never got delivered in no way exonerates Trump’s malfeasance in handling that disaster or throwing Twitter insults at the local government officials trying to save lives.

But hey, in Trump’s defense, no one ... and I mean no one .... delivered paper towels to the suffering island better than him.

Trump, he didn't lower McCain's flag long enough and he didn't personally deliver the supplies to PR

IMPEACH!!!

 

[KissMy]

Yo Roberto, we are dying over here. Gas up the truck & go find us some supplies before we croak!

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

 

[KissMy]

Trump is Spending at RECORD Rates & RECORD DEFICITS yet Nothing Works & US Citizens are left to Die! This did not happen under Clinton or Obama!

 

[depotoo]

Partisan feud
The challenge would be big enough if it stopped there, but Utuado has another problem holding things back – a long-smoldering skirmish between Puerto Rico’s two main political parties that has burst into flame in the wake of the storms.


In what might look to outsiders like a mini version of the well-publicized spat between President Trump and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz over the quantity and effectiveness of federal aid to Puerto Rico, the mayor of Utuado and the National Guard here are hardly speaking.


Why? It appears to boil down to politics, and who will be able to claim credit for delivering aid when next year’s elections roll around.

Officials and some residents alike attribute at least some of Utuado’s slow delivery of aid to political conflict: Puerto Rico’s National Guard takes its marching orders from the island’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló, who hails from the conservative New Progressive Party, while Utuado’s mayor is from the left-leaning Popular Democratic Party – the same party as San Juan’s mayor.

“I really think the attitude should be that during these times we don’t have political parties, we have Puerto Rico our home, and we are Puerto Ricans,” says Quiñones, who is from the governor’s party. “But I have to admit that the political situation is having a negative impact,” he adds, “it’s affecting people because it’s slowing things down.”


Military officials here express growing exasperation over the impact they say politics is having on their mission. The way the Puerto Rico relief effort is organized, with the military acting in support of the civilian Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA – works well when the local civilian authorities are on board, they say.

Where it doesn’t seem to work seamlessly is in cases like Utuado.

Noting that he holds an all-hands-on-deck meeting every 48 hours to assess progress and shortfalls and to plan the next two days’ aid deliveries and recovery projects, Staff Sergeant Echevarría says, “We have a standing invitation out to the mayor, we need him and his assets there, but he’s only come once. We all need to put the people first,” he adds, “there will be plenty of time for politics later.”
In Puerto Rico mountains, more than muddy roads delay relief efforts
Politics over helping their own.

Yo Roberto, we are dying over here. Gas up the truck & go find us some supplies before we croak!

 

[depotoo]

US tax payers paid for a hundred rapid launch bridges that CIC Trump just left to rot in storage lots around the country instead of sending any to Puerto Rico to get roads open to transport cargo. Instead Trump organized a pep rally to lie to voters saying he did a "Great Job"

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[deanrd]

But, hey, it's all Trump's fault, right? Certainly the incompetent, corrupt government of Puerto Rico had nothing to do with it.

He said some of the materials arrived after the National Guard ended its mission in May. He could not explain why no other agency distributed the materials after that.

But the head of the elections commission said that he has been calling the governor’s office and the National Guard regularly inquiring about plans to distribute the material, to no avail.

Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot

Considering they had no electricity for months.

It's not really a surprise.

Try to figure out why.

Think "keeping food cold" and "electricity". The answer is the connection between the two.

 

[deanrd]

Puerto Rico Governor Kissing Trumps Ass for money!

You mean the gov there didn’t take care of his people, but he sure did his other fellow politicians.

Republicans don't want people to have help no matter how desperate they are.

 

[depotoo]

Just quit your hyperbole.

Puerto Rico Governor Kissing Trumps Ass for money!

You mean the gov there didn’t take care of his people, but he sure did his other fellow politicians.

Republicans don't want people to have help no matter how desperate they are.

 

[depotoo]

Considering they regularly had no electricity for years before...
Why Puerto Rico’s Electric Grid Stood No Chance Against Maria
Making matters worse, the lack of cash for maintenance has made maintenance more costly than it would otherwise be. Before Hurricane Maria, most of what was getting done was reactive maintenance — fixing immediate outages — not preventative maintenance or upgrades, Morales said. That means AEE’s equipment — from its power plants on down — is old and out-of-date. The median age of an AEE power plant is 44 years, compared with an electric industry standard of 18. “They suffer mechanical failures constantly,” Morales said. “They have to wait a long time to get parts, and the original manufacturers consider them like a speciality part.” Even workers with the expertise to manage these aging units are in short supply and retiring quickly.

But, hey, it's all Trump's fault, right? Certainly the incompetent, corrupt government of Puerto Rico had nothing to do with it.

He said some of the materials arrived after the National Guard ended its mission in May. He could not explain why no other agency distributed the materials after that.

But the head of the elections commission said that he has been calling the governor’s office and the National Guard regularly inquiring about plans to distribute the material, to no avail.

Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot

Considering they had no electricity for months.

It's not really a surprise.

Try to figure out why.

Think "keeping food cold" and "electricity". The answer is the connection between the two.

 

[EverCurious]

Related - I heard the "abandoned" containers had mostly dog food in them.

 

[depotoo]

Related - I heard the "abandoned" containers had mostly dog food in them.

Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot
Radio Isla, a local radio station, posted a video Friday showing cases of beans, water, Tylenol and other goods covered in rat and lizard droppings.

The Puerto Rico elections commission offices had been used as a collection center for goods donated from around the country for victims of the devastating hurricane that struck the island last year. For weeks, hurricane survivors lacked running water and electricity. Widespread power failures and a severe diesel shortage kept stores, restaurants and banks closed, making it difficult for people to purchase groceries.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

But, hey, it's all Trump's fault, right? Certainly the incompetent, corrupt government of Puerto Rico had nothing to do with it.

He said some of the materials arrived after the National Guard ended its mission in May. He could not explain why no other agency distributed the materials after that.

But the head of the elections commission said that he has been calling the governor’s office and the National Guard regularly inquiring about plans to distribute the material, to no avail.

Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot

Further proof of the incompetence of the Trump misadministration.

 

[EverCurious]

Sounds like the Feds need to put their foot down about emergency plans in all states and territories. I suspect many states would rail against it though because they'd rather spend money on pet projects than future emergencies >.<

 

[Unkotare]

Yo Roberto, we are dying over here. Gas up the truck & go find us some supplies before we croak!

Their mistake was bringing in an Italian bridge builder.

 

[KissMy]

The buck stops with the failed finger pointer in chief!

Dead people everywhere & Trump stopped the counting at 16.

 

[westwall]

But, hey, it's all Trump's fault, right? Certainly the incompetent, corrupt government of Puerto Rico had nothing to do with it.

He said some of the materials arrived after the National Guard ended its mission in May. He could not explain why no other agency distributed the materials after that.

But the head of the elections commission said that he has been calling the governor’s office and the National Guard regularly inquiring about plans to distribute the material, to no avail.

Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot

Color me not surprised in the slightest.

 

[MindWars]

But, hey, it's all Trump's fault, right? Certainly the incompetent, corrupt government of Puerto Rico had nothing to do with it.

He said some of the materials arrived after the National Guard ended its mission in May. He could not explain why no other agency distributed the materials after that.

But the head of the elections commission said that he has been calling the governor’s office and the National Guard regularly inquiring about plans to distribute the material, to no avail.

Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot

It's always Trump's fault even when it's not Trumps fauilt. =)