San Juan Mayor Wears T Shirt Saying "Help Us We Are Dying"

[Kondor3]

Trump should send in 82nd Airborne and remove the mayor so the relief can finally get delivered

It's not just the Mayor of San Juan and the City Government... it's also the Territorial Governor, and the Territorial Government... and resident FEMA and DHS officials.

 

[Rambunctious]

It was proven in Katrina...you can't help a city that can't help themselves because they have never prepared for the event. Sit on your ass and wait for Uncle Sam is not a plan...

 

[Weatherman2020]

Fellow Puerto Rico Mayor Rips San Juan Mayor — ‘She’s Not Participating In Any Meetings.’

I've been asking all day. Since there's a lack of gasoline, impassable roads and all kinds of other problems getting around.
How far is it from the mayors office, where she's sleeping on a cot, to the FEMA CAD headquarters?

Anybody have any idea, before you bitch about her not traveling to it.

How far away?

Anybody?

Her fellow mayor in PR ripped her.
All the answers right there.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

...So sit on your ass and wait for a big shipment instead of moving what you can in smaller amounts. Genius.

The whole point of the exercise is that they cannot even do that, to an extent sufficient to keep a village or town on its feet...

Many roads will be blocked for weeks or months with debris, despite efforts to clear them... others have caved-in or have been washed-away...

By all reports, basically, THERE ARE NO ROADS in many areas at-present...

What are they supposed to do? Walk on air? Star-Trek transporter? Magic lamps and genies? Wormholes?

Enlighten us, oh Wise One.

You're why I don't hire liberals you people are inept. Have you looked at a map of PR? They have about four main roads. Every city or town is on the coast. It's only 35 miles wide so those inland can hike to the coast. Send barges around the coast dropping shit off. Fix the roads as best you can. Doesn't have to be perfect. Get off your our ass waiting for someone else and do something. Fix one fishing boat. Take all the fuel you can find and run that fucker to the port with all the food.

 

[Aletheia4u]

(RNN) - President Donald Trump insists a "amazing job" is being done with hurricane relief effort in Puerto Rico despite criticism from elected officials there.


Trump's Twitter account was very active Sunday morning pushing back against San Juan, Puerto Rico's, mayor, Carmen Yulin Cruz, regarding Hurricane Maria relief efforts, and said Democrats are directing her statements.

He also targeted the media for what he said was disparaging reports of first responders as a proxy for attacking him directly. He renewed that criticism hours later. Trump blames San Juan mayor, Democrats over Puerto Rico response

 

[Rambunctious]

Meanwhile, our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico are suffering, and our response so far has been embarrassingly inadequate... time to fix that

There are Americans still going through hell in Texas and Florida too...you don't see them on TV everyday trying to blame the federal response for their plight. She is just a liberal politician doing her duty to try and pin this onto Trump...it won't work.

 

[Weatherman2020]

If only PR had been given a few days notice that hurricanes are common there and one was coming.

They could have distributed supplies and cleanup crews and equipment throughout the island.

Only if.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

3000 shipping containers full of food, water, clothing and who knows what else sitting in port and only 4% of them getting anywhere.

If only the army had a solution.

If only you and that dumb ass mayor realized a container can be unloaded onto smaller vehicles and the good could get out. You don't need the Army you need people that work.

The roads are GONE.

The "smaller vehicles" cannot get to the where the supplies are.

So sit on your ass and wait for someone else to do something. The democrat way.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Being in SoCal we always keep at least a weeks supplies at home for the next big one. Typically three weeks.

People without in PR are just idiots.

 

[Rambunctious]

(RNN) - President Donald Trump insists a "amazing job" is being done with hurricane relief effort in Puerto Rico despite criticism from elected officials there

One elected official.....

 

[postman]

...Not brand new ones. Clear the debris off enough to get a vehicle through.

Right... they can start "clearing" now... they should reach some of those villages and towns by next May... long after all the residents are dead.

No... what's needed now is a massive airlift... send a lot more heavy-lifter -type helicopters down there... yesterday.

Then... once the immediate crisis has past... set them to work, clearing and repairing existing roads, to reestablish communications....

I wish Trump would have thought of that. Especially since Puerto Rico is an island, with many isolated villages.

 

[postman]

The Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is a medium-lift tandem-rotor transport helicopter powered by twin turboshaft aircraft engines designed by Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol following Vertol's acquisition by Boeing. Wikipedia
Top speed: 165 mph
Length: 45′
Wingspan: 50′ 0″
Engine type: General Electric T58
Number built: H-46: 524

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is an American twin-engine, tandem-rotor, heavy-lift helicopter developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol. The CH-47 is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Wikipedia
Top speed: 196 mph
Length: 99′
Engine type: Turboshaft
Manufacturer: Boeing Rotorcraft Systems
Number built: Over 1,200 as of 2012

National Guard personnel preparing for Hurricane Irma as relief efforts continue in Texas

Meanwhile, recovery from Hurricane Harvey continues in Texas, where more than 18,000 National Guard personnel were on duty, according to the National Guard Bureau.

Heading to Texas were 10 Soldiers from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. They left Fort Indiantown Gap on Sept. 1, Gov. Tom Wolf said. The Soldiers, flying in two CH-47 Chinook helicopter, will potentially deliver food and water to stranded people and rescue those still in need.

 

[Kondor3]

...So sit on your ass and wait for a big shipment instead of moving what you can in smaller amounts. Genius.

The whole point of the exercise is that they cannot even do that, to an extent sufficient to keep a village or town on its feet...

Many roads will be blocked for weeks or months with debris, despite efforts to clear them... others have caved-in or have been washed-away...

By all reports, basically, THERE ARE NO ROADS in many areas at-present...

What are they supposed to do? Walk on air? Star-Trek transporter? Magic lamps and genies? Wormholes?

Enlighten us, oh Wise One.

You're why I don't hire liberals you people are inept. Have you looked at a map of PR? They have about four main roads. Every city or town is on the coast. It's only 35 miles wide so those inland can hike to the coast. Send barges around the coast dropping shit off. Fix the roads as best you can. Doesn't have to be perfect. Get off your our ass waiting for someone else and do something. Fix one fishing boat. Take all the fuel you can find and run that fucker to the port with all the food.

Don't look now, but, by saying "... there are no roads in many areas at-present..." in the context of usability... means that the existing roads are impassable.

It's not a matter of looking at a map... it's a matter of whether or not the roads on that map are actually passable... and, at present, most are NOT.

Large numbers of villages and towns are cut-off and supplies from the ports are unable to reach them except via airlift.

Oh, and, tell us, how does a village or town, consisting of both able-bodied and others (youngsters, the elderly, the infirm and disabled and sickly) send contingents to the coast, and expect them to bring back sufficient supplies to keep that town or village alive, carrying enough food, water, first-aid supplies, and medicines to last > 5 minutes after they return?

Mule-pack? A column of back-packers? They've been doing that for days. It's not enough. Not nearly enough.

Any fifth-grader understands that your answer to the logistical crisis is entirely inadequate and unsustainable from Day One...

Not to mention cold, heartless, and entirely unacceptable to most Americans, Left, Right and Center.

More is needed. They're going to get it. And you're going to pay for it. With no say-so in the matter, as always happens in matters of of emergency relief. Got it, now?

 

[Aletheia4u]

The Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is a medium-lift tandem-rotor transport helicopter powered by twin turboshaft aircraft engines designed by Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol following Vertol's acquisition by Boeing. Wikipedia
Top speed: 165 mph
Length: 45′
Wingspan: 50′ 0″
Engine type: General Electric T58
Number built: H-46: 524

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is an American twin-engine, tandem-rotor, heavy-lift helicopter developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol. The CH-47 is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Wikipedia
Top speed: 196 mph
Length: 99′
Engine type: Turboshaft
Manufacturer: Boeing Rotorcraft Systems
Number built: Over 1,200 as of 2012

National Guard personnel preparing for Hurricane Irma as relief efforts continue in Texas

Meanwhile, recovery from Hurricane Harvey continues in Texas, where more than 18,000 National Guard personnel were on duty, according to the National Guard Bureau.

Heading to Texas were 10 Soldiers from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. They left Fort Indiantown Gap on Sept. 1, Gov. Tom Wolf said. The Soldiers, flying in two CH-47 Chinook helicopter, will potentially deliver food and water to stranded people and rescue those still in need.

Luckily Pres.Trump did not send that many troops in the early part of the disaster. They only have enough food and water rations to feed a certain amount.

 

[postman]

Luckily Pres.Trump did not send that many troops in the early part of the disaster. They only have enough food and water rations to feed a certain amount.

What's amazing is the republican fantasy of Obama sending AC-130 gunships to rescue the ambassador in Benghazi. Which was logistically impossible due to the nearest being thousands of miles away in the middle of the night.

But can't envision Trump should have sent CH-47 heavy lift helicoptors from air national guard units, like they did in Texas after Harvey.

 

[postman]

Boeing CH-47 Chinook - Wikipedia

Disaster relief and other roles

Since the type's inception, the Chinook has carried out secondary missions including medical evacuation, disaster relief, search and rescue, aircraft recovery, fire fighting, and heavy construction assistance. According to Suresh Abraham, the Chinook's ability to carry large, underslung loads has been of significant value in relief operations in the aftermath of natural disasters

• Cruise speed: 160 kt (184 mph, 296 km/h)

• Range: 400 nmi (450 mi, 741 km)

• Ferry range: 1,216 nmi (1,400 mi, 2,252 km[126])

• Service ceiling: 20,000 ft (6100 m)

Capacity: 24,000 lb (10,886 kg) cargo

 

[Missouri_Mike]

...So sit on your ass and wait for a big shipment instead of moving what you can in smaller amounts. Genius.

The whole point of the exercise is that they cannot even do that, to an extent sufficient to keep a village or town on its feet...

Many roads will be blocked for weeks or months with debris, despite efforts to clear them... others have caved-in or have been washed-away...

By all reports, basically, THERE ARE NO ROADS in many areas at-present...

What are they supposed to do? Walk on air? Star-Trek transporter? Magic lamps and genies? Wormholes?

Enlighten us, oh Wise One.

You're why I don't hire liberals you people are inept. Have you looked at a map of PR? They have about four main roads. Every city or town is on the coast. It's only 35 miles wide so those inland can hike to the coast. Send barges around the coast dropping shit off. Fix the roads as best you can. Doesn't have to be perfect. Get off your our ass waiting for someone else and do something. Fix one fishing boat. Take all the fuel you can find and run that fucker to the port with all the food.

Don't look now, but, by saying "... there are no roads in many areas at-present..." in the context of usability... means that the existing roads are impassable.

It's not a matter of looking at a map... it's a matter of whether or not the roads on that map are actually passable... and, at present, most are NOT.

Large numbers of villages and towns are cut-off and supplies from the ports are unable to reach them except via airlift.

Oh, and, tell us, how does a village or town, consisting of both able-bodied and others (youngsters, the elderly, the infirm and disabled and sickly) send contingents to the coast, and expect them to bring back sufficient supplies to keep that town or village alive, carrying enough food, water, first-aid supplies, and medicines to last > 5 minutes after they return?

Mule-pack? A column of back-packers? They've been doing that for days. It's not enough. Not nearly enough.

Any fifth-grader understands that your answer to the logistical crisis is entirely inadequate and unsustainable from Day One...

Not to mention cold, heartless, and entirely unacceptable to most Americans, Left, Right and Center.

More is needed. They're going to get it. And you're going to pay for it. With no say-so in the matter, as always happens in matters of of emergency relief. Got it, now?

You should move to PR, it would appear your whiney ass would fit right in there.

There are some infirm people so why should the able bodied do anything right? One crippled up person in a village means none of them can do anything.

They are getting enough. They suck ass at utilizing it.

Man you left wingers are a pathetic group.

 

[postman]

You should move to PR, it would appear your whiney ass would fit right in there.

There are some infirm people so why should the able bodied do anything right? One crippled up person in a village means none of them can do anything.

They are getting enough. They suck ass at utilizing it.

Man you left wingers are a pathetic group.

They sent CH-47's to Texas, why not to Puerto Rico? Where they could airlift the fright containers directly from the ships, and bring them to the villages that needed them. Make at least two trips an hour (most trips probably every 10 minutes, traveling 10 times the speed of a truck).

 

[Missouri_Mike]

You should move to PR, it would appear your whiney ass would fit right in there.

There are some infirm people so why should the able bodied do anything right? One crippled up person in a village means none of them can do anything.

They are getting enough. They suck ass at utilizing it.

Man you left wingers are a pathetic group.

They sent CH-47's to Texas, why not to Puerto Rico? Where they could airlift the fright containers directly from the ships, and bring them to the villages that needed them. Make at least two trips an hour (most trips probably every 10 minutes, traveling 10 times the speed of a truck).

Good question. Where the hell is PR's guard troops and equipment?

 

[postman]

Get off your our ass waiting for someone else and do something. Fix one fishing boat. Take all the fuel you can find and run that fucker to the port with all the food.

Didn't they try that on Gilligans Island? How did that work out?