There was a big spot on PBS Newshour on this last night. FEMA's got stuff over there but they are having trouble distributing it due to .... lots of infrastructure damage and having to get the equipment to the island to repair the infrastructure so they can get the generators and fuel and water and medicine and fuel where it needs to go. Communications are totally out in places. It's a mess.
Listen, I get the disconnect, but com'on, if this were a place that had a bunch of depressed whites, a bridge would be intact yesterday. I for one hope these people rid themselves of power lined energy and get with the solar windmill technology.
They ARE having trouble. Did you see the mayor of San Juan on the news last night, crying? People are dying in her hospitals because the emergency generators ran out of diesel. She's exhausted from going door to door because they've got no coms.
I didnt say they were. I said the governor was praising Americas efforts. You can only do so much..
This Typhoon-Proof Wind Turbine Can Produce Power In A Storm
Amen. Although windmills would get their asses kicked in a hurricane, I think. Power cables, when they are repaired, should be installed underground. **** the expense. And emergency generators and vast tanks of emergency fuel should be ON THE ISLAND prior to hurricane season. Brock said something like that last night. We are not a people that think about disasters BEFORE hand.
I'm not blaming Trump. I'm just sayin things are hard. And what you said the first time? Wasn't exactly "You can only do so much."
I was replying to the racists OP. It wasnt needed.
**** the expense? Every citizen in PR owe over 30K dollars. Half their population is dirt poor. How can you **** the expense when you dont have the means to do anything?
This is a time to call on cruise ships that are still operating to come and perhaps take these people to other areas. There is a solution to this, that is available. Right now the only path way to this country is via water, why not commission cruise ships that have no problems taking people to this country, why not have at least 4 or 5 come to take people to safety or have them stay on this ships.
Watching all them damned power lines all over the place.....clearly its time PR come into some new tech or put the lines underground......**** the expense, you are sooo right....by the time FEMA gets through with just this year alone, the coffers will be dry. This country will rule the day, we keep ignoring our failing infrastructure and our failures to regulate zoning areas/
I don't know, TN, but where there's a will, there's a way. Should be the same way in the rest of the U.S. When Maine had it's huge power fail during the icestorm of '98, it took weeks to get everyone back on line and months -- probably years-- to rebuild all the towers, etc. (They toppled like dominoes.)
Please let's not forget the NFL.
I have seen estimates that it cost 10-14 times the cost of overhead. That would be a huge increase in electric usage. Can poor people afford that?
The hospital ship Comfort has finally been ordered to deploy, but it will take up to a week for it to get there. Of course, it would have taken a few days to assess what would be needed, but considering the devastation in PR, you'd think they would have thought of a naval hospital ship a lot sooner. Cholera? Jesus.
