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'Hysteria Is Starting to Spread' As Humanitarian Crisis Grows in Puerto Rico After Maria
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-us-virgin-islands-dominica-car ^ | 9/23/17 | Pam Wright

Posted on 09/23/2017 11:08:07 PM PDT by Kartographer

"Hysteria is starting to spread. The hospital is about to collapse. It's at capacity," Mayor Jose Sanchez Gonzalez of the north coastal town of Manati told the Associated Press Saturday, crying. "We need someone to help us immediately."

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told The Weather Channel they were attempting to reach the most remote areas of the island by helicopter, as travel has been crippled by debris and downed power lines on Puerto Rico's roads. Officials said Saturday they still could not communicate with more than half the territory's towns.

Local newspaper El Nuevo Dia reported Saturday evening that the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were attempting to take control of a tanker loaded with fuel that was adrift in the sea near Salinas. The agencies are concerned that a spillage could occur should the tanker run aground.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanemaria; puertorico
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To: dr_lew
Surely there is at least some equivalent in the U.S. Navy capable of responding!

Yes, and they're engaged:

Eight Navy ships, other assets mobilized after hurricanes Harvey and Irma

Navy and Marines prepare to deploy to help Hurricane Harvey victims

So they're not all in port, mobbing the clubs.

21 posted on 09/24/2017 3:26:35 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Kartographer
I'm mortified that I have friends who cannot locate their family yet. They knew another storm was inbound but...nothing!

Prayers for the good people of Puerto Rico and may the monsters who destroyed their infrastructure and wasted their wealth so that they were not prepared for this disaster be confronted with their evils at final justice.

22 posted on 09/24/2017 3:46:17 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: raybbr

OK. So you find some tugboats, and there’s still no pilot. Does the EPA have a pilot available? Someone who can maneuver an oil tanker? I suspect not.


23 posted on 09/24/2017 3:48:31 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Kartographer

About a third of Puerto Ricans already live in Florida.
Me thinks about 75 percent of those left there will be moving here in the near future.


24 posted on 09/24/2017 3:48:49 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: dr_lew
There are only two dedicated hospital ships.

USNS COMFORT (T-AH 20)
USNS MERCY

25 posted on 09/24/2017 3:50:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Eleutheria5

Right, it says they’re working on it. How many tugboats do you think are in PR?


26 posted on 09/24/2017 4:00:08 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: dfwgator
The Democrats are going to try to turn this into Trump’s “Katrina”, count on it.

And a lot of FReepers and "principled conservatives" will help them by demanding none of their tax dollars gets illegally spent via humanitarian relief for American Citizens.....

27 posted on 09/24/2017 4:08:12 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Kartographer
My wife likes to watch the TV show House Hunters International.

Whenever they would have an episode of a couple or family looking to purchase homes in places like Nicaragua or parts of the Caribbean, I would always shudder at the naivety of some of the buyers.

I traveled to every continent and scores of countries during my flying career, and I am convinced that most of these people do not understand the Third World or near Third World.

People talk about cities having a "Thin Blue Line" of cops to protect us from crime. Well, in the many of these countries, the veneer of civilization, law, and much else is very thin indeed. I still remember a show where some young blond wife was shown walking through a street with everyone starring at her. She was wearing her fine clothes and jewels, stating she wanted to live "right near downtown" so she could "shop and experience the local culture."

Lady, you are a Gringo or Toubab, and when things go south, you are the first on their list to rob or attack. As in St. Maarten and Barbuda after Irma, the British Virgin Islands, and elsewhere, many whites found this out the hard way.

Looters ‘armed with machetes and guns’ ransack hotels on St Maarten after Hurricane Irma Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/10/looters-armed-with-machetes-and-guns-ransack-hotels-on-st-maarten-after-hurricane-irma-6916033/#ixzz4tarYEbgc

28 posted on 09/24/2017 4:09:39 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: dr_lew

The US Navy has two 1000-bed capacity hospital ships. The one based on the east coast :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Comfort_(T-AH-20)


29 posted on 09/24/2017 4:10:44 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Kartographer

Think of prepping as real-world insurance.

A homeowner’s policy (hopefully) will pay to replace what you’ve lost, but a generator in the garage provides more immediate benefits. You can bet those PR preppers with even a few cases of bottled water set aside are glad they did.

Prepping only becomes worthwhile when the fertilizer hits the fan. Then it becomes the best insurance policy in the whole wide world.


30 posted on 09/24/2017 4:28:39 AM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun.)
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To: dr_lew
What happened to hospital ships?

Sure there is. Our tax dollar sends them all over the world helping our enemies. It seems we can send them to PR if they are not deployed along the Gulf Coast already.

31 posted on 09/24/2017 4:51:22 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: raybbr

After the storm? Maybe there are pilots, too. But the EPA wouldn’t know what to do. They push paper.


32 posted on 09/24/2017 4:53:43 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: SkyPilot

I always think the same things when I watch these shows. The people are so naive regarding the thin veneer of civilization where they want to live just because it looks like ‘paradise’.
On another note, last spring my son and high school band were supposed to go to Puerto Rico for a trip. Months before the trip was cancelled due to infrastructure and security concerns of protecting hundreds of (at least to locals) well-off white Americans. Since safety could not be guarnteed, they cancelled and went to Disney instead.


33 posted on 09/24/2017 5:03:58 AM PDT by usmom
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
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34 posted on 09/24/2017 5:26:31 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Better link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Comfort_%28T-AH-20%29


35 posted on 09/24/2017 5:28:18 AM PDT by Blennos ( As)
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To: Kartographer

Every time during the last few days that I caught a few minutes of news, it wad either Mexico, North Korea, or Trump vs. NBA. Puerto Rico is ignored.


36 posted on 09/24/2017 5:47:26 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: DNME

What happens when your house collapses on your prepwork?


37 posted on 09/24/2017 5:50:59 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: dr_lew

Too busy handling pregnant sailors. (I never ever thought that I would write that someday.)


38 posted on 09/24/2017 6:29:39 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Kartographer

It’s really sad that since the media found out that attempts to beat up on Trump about hurricanes are futile they are ignoring hurricanes. What filthy scum.


39 posted on 09/24/2017 6:32:04 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Kartographer

PR will be a good test lab for total SHTF. Worse than Katrina, because it’s not attached to 47 other states by a highway system. The cavalry is going to take a long time to arrive, much more slowly than the social disintegration will take place.


40 posted on 09/24/2017 7:01:05 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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