Governor of Puerto Rico Confirms Trump's Responded to His Requests For Help

Townhall.com ^ | September 29, 2017 | Leah Barkoukis

[bjcoop]

Not according to the party he won under in Puerto Rico. He was a New progressive vs. Popular Democratic candidate.

[Kaslin]

101st ABN DIV (AASLT) Begins Relief Mission in Puerto Rico

2 hours ago by Lt. Colonel Martin O'Donnell, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Public Affairs Officer

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – (CLARKSVILLENOW) The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) conducted its first assistance mission in Puerto Rico today in support of commonwealth and federal hurricane relief efforts.

Six HH-60 medevac Blackhawk helicopters from Team Medevac, an element of the division’s 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, transported three Disaster Medical Assistance Teams from Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport in San Juan to hospitals in Arecibo, Mayagüez and Ponce.

Team Medevac, comprised of more than 70 personnel and eight HH-60 medevac Blackhawk helicopters, departed here, Sept. 27, on two C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft. After arriving later that day at José Aponte de la Torre Airport, in Ceiba, Soldiers from the team and Airmen from the 22nd Airlift Squadron, 60th Air Mobility Wing and the 68th Airlift Squadron, 433rd Airlift Wing unloaded the helicopters. The Soldiers then placed the aircraft into operation and conducted test flights, Sept. 28, before conducting their first relief mission today.

Additional photos of Team Medevac (Puerto Rico)

[FreedomPoster]

>>They tried hiring semi-qualified people and three fuel trucks were stolen.

Based on that, and my experience there some years ago, there are some cultural problems to be overcome. I have a hard time thinking highly about a place where the locals buy wrought iron and razor wire by the metric ton.

[Kaslin]

Well it says Democrat under party affiliation, and under party it says “New Progressive Party”

[Ambrosia]

PR has chosen to misspend money on social programs and not fix infrastructure like electricity, city water, sewer and roads, etc. So now we can’t repair what was junk in first place, so it looks like as taxpayers we will get stuck rebuilding PR electric grid, etc.

PR is a US Territory... probably needs to be a state so federal and state taxes can help rebuild, and restore the island. It looks in pics like most of it is in rubble and needs more than Houston and Key West, and that is saying a lot!

[Paul R.]

This sounds like a huge whiff by the Disaster Preparedness Organization(s?) that would deal with PR. It’s probably a problem a decade or more in the making.

There have to have been SOME indications of trouble in past events... Maybe no one ever asked something along the lines of “what if what happened last year was twice as bad and covered 80% of PR, instead of 10%?”

This is VERY likely libs at work — people who usually have little ability to project down the road more than a step or two.

I wonder who has been most directly in charge of FEMA’s responsibility for PR for the last several years?. (I confess ignorance of FEMA’s structure — I would assume they have some one person in charge of each State or Territory(?) who then reports to either a regional director or to the Fema Nat’l director him/herself.

[Titus-Maximus]

Roads and bridges are washed out. Debris has not been cleared from roads. So a lot of basic work has to be done, unless they use helicopters to ferry supplies.

There are military personnel and equipment being put there, and 3000 containers of food, medicine and fuel sitting on the docks. Need to distribute it.

Like 40 out of 51 hospitals are open.

[Chgogal]

Don't know what to think.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3589952/posts?page=43#43

[Cedar]

I read on another conservative site that because of the high crime/attacks the truck drivers won’t go without more security for them. That seems to be the biggest problem and reason for delays.

[Grampa Dave]

The Puerto Rico truck driving thugs are not handling what the people need.

Puerto Rico aid is trapped in thousands of shipping containers!

By Patrick Gillespie, Rafael Romo and Maria Santana, CNN
Updated 7:36 PM ET, Thu September 28, 2017

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/us/puerto-rico-aid-problem/index.html

[Ambrosia]

Yes, a lot of what you said is true. The real issue is FAKE NEWS from left trying to make Trump Admin response look bad. Here is TRUTH in that Union Truck Drivers refused to deliver the supplies/food stuck in port on containers. Trump has sent hundreds of truck drivers to PR to distribute what the democrat/union truck drivers won’t for their own people. It’s on Twitter, check the trending comments sections.

So it is a left issue to try and discredit Trump. Every agency and First Responders on the Ground in San Juan, PR...over 10,000. and military, and all agencies like FEMA, etc.

[I want the USA back]

As soon as the hurricane hit Puerto Rico, I knew that the left was itching to find a way to turn this into Trump’s “Katrina.” They have started.

[bjcoop]

Fair enough though it’s important to note that Rossello is to the right of most of the Democratic Party

[straps]

The drivers are “ON STRIKE “

[Chgogal]

What? Link please. If true, that is intolerable. Absolutely intolerable!

[lepton]

The supplies are sitting at the ports in truckloads...not getting them out to the people. It’s a glut. The military needs to get out there and get this stuff to the people....it’s looking really bad...

Look at what you posted. Stuff is there. People are there. People familiar with modern transportation technology are there. ...And they need the military to be sent there to move the stuff?

[miserare]

Today’s PRs are hopeless hapless babies. They are doing nothing for Themselves. Even the Cubans conduct themselves in a more adult manner when hit by a storm.

[HereInTheHeartland]

And its 1,209 nautical miles from the port of Miami to San Juan!!!!
http://ports.com/sea-route/port-of-miami,united-states/puerto-de-san-juan,puerto-rico/

And I heard the power plant in Puerto Rico isn’t damaged; its totally destroyed. Trump said this yesterday.

Yes the situation there would be dire. However the misinformed ones trying to blame Trump need to buy a clue.

[Impy]

It doesn’t sound like a formal strike, more like they just aren’t showing up for work, many are out of contact.

[Fai Mao]

Actually, the teamster leader there told the truck drivers not to go to work.