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Keyser Soze

On 9/30/17 11:48 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:31:56 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

It was apparent days ahead of time that the huge storm had PR squarely
in its sights. Troops, food, generators, medicine, could have been flown
in ahead of time and staged at the major airports. More military
airlifts could have started flowing in the next day once all runways
were cleared. There's still not enough menn/women and materials to get
the jobs done. Portable cell towers need to be set up in hospitals,
towns, et cetera. The federal government needs to hire on a temp basis
any able-bodied man or woman who wants to aid in the clean-up, and pay
them weekly or bi-weekly. Mayors of towns need federal liaison personnel
assigned to them. The list is endless.

You really are stupid aren't you? You do not fly supplies INTO the
path of a hurricane. You want to stage them outside the damage path
and bring them in after the storm.
... and no offence but there were two other major land falling
hurricanes inside the CONUS that they had not really mitigated yet.
The main problem in Puerto Rico was local. They really did not have a
plan. Their command and control was shaky on a sunny day and they had
3d world infrastructure before the storm. That is not coming back
quickly, no matter how much federal money we throw at it.

Trump's lack of leadership, compassion, interest, and empathy has ****ed
this up. Today, the moron was complaining about the mayor of San Juan
while he was getting ready for his ****ing golf game.

Why do you think this is really the federal government's job?
The private sector was up and running here long before the first
national guard truck showed up with MREs and water. It took 2 weeks
before I saw anyone from FEMA.
They were just driving around looking for tree limbs too close to the
power lines, a truly stupid project, since FPL actually does a good
job of that. That is northern thinking in a southern state. I
understand they needed that in Virginia and Maryland where trees are
more important than people.

PR is a U.S. territory, inhabited by U.S. citizens. We own it and it is
our responsibility to fix it when it breaks. Your never-ending
anti-government snarkiness has nothing to do with the reality of various
situations, but everything to do with your "I've got mine, **** you"
attitude. As for what FEMA was or was not doing in your area, I
seriously doubt you had eyeballs on the majority of federal workers
helping your state recover.