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My son and family near San Juan texted out that they are OK with only mild wind blown flooding under the front door. Use text if you can’t phone or email. It uses way less power/band width/whatever. For water you can use Clorox or Iodine. Also boiling if dry wood or paper are available??? For one gallon of clear water add about 1/8th teaspoon of regular bleach. Let debris settle out of water, then filter through clean cloth until clear. If cloudy double the bleach amount. See this for details: https://www.clorox.com/dr-laundry/disaster-preparedness-purifying-water/ Important note, new fancy “splashless”, “scented” don’t work. Read labels. For using Iodine. Put 3 drops in a large glass of clean water and let sit for 30 minutes before drinking.
Here is another update link: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/24/americas/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-aftermath/index.html

The following information on giving may sound too left-wingy for some. However, I was once administrative secretary for 600 projects with grants and loans between $100 and $10,000 (1970) throughout Latin America and Caribbean. We never had a loan default by rural farm groups and cooperatives. Urban groups were less reliable. Therefore I think the idea of helping farmers and peasants get back to producing food is a good idea. They work and don’t sit around waiting for welfare.
“GIVE TO PUERTO RICO - Hurricane Maria cut off 100% of power to the whole of Puerto Rico and it could be months until it is restored. In the northwest of the island, government officials are creating additional confusion and uncertainty with conflicting “official” statements regarding the damaged Guajataca River Dam which prompted an initial call for the evacuation of 70,000 people in towns downstream of the reservoir. Although the structure has been significantly compromised, people are returning to their homes today after a spillway was opened Saturday night to lessen the pressure on the dam and the lake water is now receding. Governor Ricardo Rossello and the US National Weather Service (NWS) are still concerned that the dam will “give way at any moment.” There are also 23 Superfund sites in Puerto Rico, including a former U.S. naval testing range in Vieques.
“The hurricane was extremely strong, so it’s a big disaster down here, but we are bouncing back up with solidarity and the Puerto Rican spirit. Right now we are fixing roofs, cleaning drains, etc. Nevertheless, the infrastructure right now in the country is very damaged, so nothing is open. The country is completely classified as a disaster zone. All of the agriculture is gone. The impact of María was so strong that green landscapes and ecosystems in Puerto Rico are now brown with lots of fallen trees. Most of the infrastructure of small and medium scale farms is very damaged. The majority of the population doesn’t have communication, no service and signals are very low. I walked 30 minutes from where I live to find the bit of signal in which I’m sending this message. We are asking the international community to help donating whatever you can to help Puerto Rico and its ecological agriculture,” Jesús Vázquez of Proyecto Agroecológico El Josco Bravo.
Donate to Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico, a 28 year old grassroots organization that works and promotes agroecology within the food sovereignty struggle. Boricuá, is the official Chapter in Puerto Rico of the international peasant movement: La Vía Campesina (LVC)- Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (CLOC). Boricuá is a network of peasants (campesinos/as), farmers, farm workers, educators and activists that is deeply involved in a national social justice movement that builds a sustainable agriculture platform for small and medium scale peasants and farmers.
Account Number, Banco Popular: #162039034
PayPal: organizacion.boricua@ gmail.com”