Hard to believe "hearsay" when major newspapers talk about serious power grid issues that'd take months to address, with a bankrupt island in receivership ruled from Washington by a "Fiscal Board." People were already in a dire situation before the storm!
Regards / Saludos / Grato Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > On Sep 25, 2017, at 7:13 PM, CharBee <beevangel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've several friends there who refute this narrative. There are many areas > returning to power each day. They are driving to almost all points of the > island. They are not hungry, in fact they're eating more because of spoilage. > This is not to say there is not need or disaster to fix, but this narrative > of total annihilation is just not true. > >> On Sep 25, 2017 19:05, "Lina Srivastava" <l...@linasrivastava.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Friends of mine from the PR diaspora in NYC have put together this effort, >> in case anyone wants a way to help remotely beyond donations: >> https://www.ecokitduffle.org/ >> >> This is from the description they've circulated: "Based on the estimation >> that the island of Puerto Rico will be without electric power for months, >> the Puerto Rican Diaspora in New York and Connecticut have organized >> "EcoKit," a lightweight and eco friendly duffle bag for off the grid >> survival. Eco Kit Puerto Rico gives you an itemized list carefully selected >> for Puerto Rico's resilience after Hurricane Maria. The list serves as a >> guide for organizations, communities, families and individuals. We've >> partnered up with Loisaida Center in the Lower East Side NYC as collection >> base for Eco Kit items. There, kits are assembled and picked up by >> organizations' liaisons who are flying to the island and distributing them >> directly..." >> >> Lina >> >>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> “Hysteria is starting to spread”: Puerto Rico is devastated in the wake of >>> Hurricane Maria >>> >>> No power, little access to water, dwindling food: the situation in Puerto >>> Rico right now. >>> >>> Updated by Brian Resnick on September 25, 2017 5:06 pm >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> Among the greatest threats is the continuing lack of power throughout much >>> of the island, after nearly the entire power grid was knocked offline >>> during the storm (about 80 percent of the transmission infrastructure was >>> destroyed). The New York Times reports it could be four to six months >>> before power is restored on the island. That’s half a year with Puerto >>> Rico’s 3.4 million residents relying on generators, half a year without air >>> conditioning in the tropical climate, half a year where electric pumps >>> can’t bring running water into homes, half a year where even the most basic >>> tasks of modern life are made difficult. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> “Being without power is huge,” says Mutter. “Just how quickly they can get >>> it back is still an unknown thing. But it’s extremely important they get it >>> going to suppress the chances of illness following the storm.” >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Puerto Rico is the most populated island Maria hit. And the crisis there is >>> particularly intense. For one, it’s exacerbated by lack of communications. >>> (1,360 out of 1,600 cellphone towers on the island are out.) Many >>> communities have been isolated from the outside world for days, relying >>> only on radios for news. The communications shortage means the full extent >>> of the crisis has not been assessed. >>> >>> "The devastation in Puerto Rico has set us back nearly 20 to 30 years," >>> Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez told CBS News. "I >>> can't deny that the Puerto Rico of now is different from that of a week >>> ago. The destruction of properties, of flattened structures, of families >>> without homes, of debris everywhere. The island's greenery is gone." >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> The Washington Post reported from Juncos, Puerto Rico, a municipality in >>> the Central Eastern region of the island. There, they found a diabetic >>> woman afraid that the refrigeration that keeps her insulin preserved will >>> soon run out, people living in homes missing roofs or whole second floors, >>> and where the villagers asked journalists upon their arrival, “Are you >>> FEMA?” >>> >>> There are few hospitals with running generators, CNN reports, and fewer >>> with running water. Reuters reports that hospitals are scrambling to find >>> diesel fuels to power generators, and that food supplies are running low. A >>> cardiovascular surgeon the newswire spoke with explained: >>> >>> …without air conditioning, the walls of the operating room were dripping >>> with condensation and floors were slippery. ... Most patients had been >>> discharged or evacuated to other facilities, but some patients remained >>> because their families could not be reached by phone. >>> >>> USA Today made it to the town Arecibo on the Northern shore of the island, >>> where residents hadn’t heard any news from the outside world for four days, >>> and the only source of fresh water is from a single fire hydrant. >>> >>> “Hysteria is starting to spread,” Jose Sanchez Gonzalez, mayor of Manati, a >>> town on the North shore, told the Associated Press. “The hospital is about >>> to collapse. It’s at capacity. … We need someone to help us immediately.” >>> >>> But the list of woes is much longer. An untold number of homes are >>> irreparably damaged. Infrastructure is badly damaged. People aren’t >>> working. The storm was particularly costly for the agriculture industry: >>> “In a matter of hours, Hurricane Maria wiped out about 80 percent of the >>> crop value in Puerto Rico,” the New York Times reports. >>> >>> Even the National Weather Services Doppler weather radar station on the >>> island has been destroyed. That’s the radar that helps meteorologist see >>> where thunderstorms and other weather systems are moving in real time. “Not >>> having radar does make future storms more hazardous,” says Jeff Weber, a >>> meteorologist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. >>> >>> Meanwhile, new crises keep forming in the wake of the storm. On Friday, the >>> National Weather Service issued a dire warning about the Guajataca Dam in >>> the Northwestern corner of Puerto Rico, threatening downstream areas with >>> deadly floods. Seventy thousand people — enough to fill a small city — have >>> been asked to evacuate areas that could be flooded by the nearly 11 billion >>> gallons of water the dam holds back. >>> >>> And leaving is not an option, at least for now. “Travelers at the airport >>> on Sunday were told that passengers who do not already have tickets may not >>> be able to secure flights out until October 4,” Reuters reports. >>> >>> Puerto Rico is an island, which complicates recovery efforts. Supplies have >>> to be flown in or arrive via ship. Most of the sick and elderly haven’t >>> been able to evacuate. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/energy-and-environment/2017/9/25/16360488/hurricane-maria-2017-puerto-rico-recovery-san-juan-hospitals-electricty-cell-service >>> >>> -- >>> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of >>> list guidelines will get you moderated: >>> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, >>> change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at >>> zakwh...@stanford.edu. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> -- >> Lina Srivastava >> -- >> twitter | linkedin | facebook | instagram >> www.cielab.in >> >> >> >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of >> list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. 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