Aid Is Getting to Puerto Rico. Distributing It Remains a ...
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Oct 03, 2017 · Compounding the problems, some cities in Puerto Rico did not have enough trucks to haul their supplies home, if they had any available at all, …Two weeks after Hurricane Maria split apart Puerto Rico, basic aid is arriving in San Juan and reaching more remote towns and barrios aching for assistance. But some families say that they are still receiving only meager portions, and ill-equipped and overburdened local mayors have been left to figure out how to haul supplies from regional drop-off points to their storm-ravaged towns.
The death toll from the hurricane rose to 34, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said on Tuesday.
That is where FEMA needed to step in
Where roads and bridges were unpassable, helicopters were needed to ferry in critical food, water and medical supplies and evacuate those who were in danger of dying
We have military trucks capable of hauling critical supplies. If local areas lacked the trucks, we should have provided them
Puerto Rico did not have the helicopter fleet and vehicles......the US did