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Crisis in Puerto Rico

Local Duke Energy workers heading to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Maria assistance

More than 40 percent of Puerto Rico’s power customers remain in the dark, nearly four months after Category 4 Hurricane Maria hit the island.

“The island is completely destroyed. There is no power,” said Armando Ortis, an equipment operator for Duke Energy.

Ortis knows the heartbreak the people of Puerto Rico are going through. His family, including his mother, daughter and grandson live there. While they are OK, Ortis knows many aren’t as lucky.

“They are without power, they are without water. Some people are going without food,” he said.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Puerto Rico still don't have power.

Also the governor had to shame Walmart into extending its announced pay raise to its employees in Puerto Rico.

 
40% of the schools in PR aren't open. Think that would be the case in white parts of TX?
 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/puerto...ort-1515708596?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=4

For anyone who gets the WSJ, Apparently there was a massive warehouse full of necessary power grid supplies that was being illegally and surreptitiously held. US Army Corps of Engineers discovered the warehouse and conducted what seems to have been an armed raid to discover the supplies. They immediately began distribution to help the recovery effort. Not a good look for a country that has made political hay out of being under-supplied by the current administration.

Puerto Rico’s governor asked justice officials to investigate allegations that critical power grid supplies were stockpiled instead of put to use rebuilding the U.S. territory’s infrastructure following a devastating recent hurricane.

Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Thursday that the Puerto Rico Justice Department probe would uncover “whether there was a commission of crimes or negligent action.”

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said this week it had discovered supplies at a warehouse owned by the island’s bankrupt electric monopoly, known as Prepa, and then distributed them to private contractors rebuilding the island power grid. The announcement sparked a furor on the island, where hundreds of thousands of families are still without power.
 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/puerto...ort-1515708596?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=4

For anyone who gets the WSJ, Apparently there was a massive warehouse full of necessary power grid supplies that was being illegally and surreptitiously held. US Army Corps of Engineers discovered the warehouse and conducted what seems to have been an armed raid to discover the supplies. They immediately began distribution to help the recovery effort. Not a good look for a country that has made political hay out of being under-supplied by the current administration.

Not a subscriber. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Who was holding the supplies? Who was supposed to be holding the supplies? Which country are you talking about?
 
 
Think Trump would get money to PR if a lack of power freed prisoners rather than kept kids from going to school?
 
An elementary school in the United States was without power for 112 days.
 
 
Trump's position on Puerto Rico is much like the South African here.

 
Let’s not forget the Puerto Rican trucking union bosses who have refused to run trailers full of supplies
 
On scales of government failures, Puerto Rico is astronomical. Thanks trump!
 
I am going to Puerto Rico tomorrow until Wednesday for a work trip. I’ll report on the on the ground status.
 
Can confirm that Puerto Rico is surrounded by big water. It appears to be an island. We were 1 for 6 on working traffic lights in San Juan this afternoon.
 
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