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San Juan mayor on Trump: No time for this - CNN Video
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San Juan mayor on Trump: No time for this - CNN Video
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Office of the President (POTUS)
Natural Disaster
San Juan
Posted 7 y ago
Responses: 10
Lt. Sandy: how do feel about the report that the Mayor has not attended the daily coordination meetings at the joint field office? Other mayors are there but she is not! Standing in front of stacks of food and water supplies in a warehouse... optics? Please don’t defend her because she is female or simply a Trump hater... evaluate her leadership skills, ability to rally the troops... not interviewing on CNN, printing tee shirts and hats. The death toll is 16 unchanged since the storm not one death reported since... no one is dying... please let common sense prevail here. Puerto Rico’s infrastructure is 3d world and this is going to take time to fix. Hyperbolic rhetoric is not the solution. Surly you can see that.
Major of San Juan does not have time for this and did not have time to prepare on an island for a hurricane. We have gone to a horrible place in this country where victims are never responsible for anything and that is a problem moving forward. Neither Puerto Rico nor the Federal government was prepared nor was Houston. We have areas in our country that are prone to certain disasters yet proper preparation is never completed. People worry more about health care, food, and other things long before disaster prep and then when it happens, they are like OMG! People should have a supply of water, at least a gallon per person for the amount of time it took water to be restored from the last hurricane (yes, Irma and Maria were not the first), food for the same, and probably a small generator with enough power to keep a small frig running. Propane is good to have on hand, you can cook with it and boil water for consumption. Gasoline is another to have on hand, when Harvey hit and folks slammed the gas stations, I had some at the house that went into my car. FEMA should have had planes and ships stocked with supplies and ready to leave once the storm was far enough passed to do so safely, not waiting like they did. “We are going to wait for the call and proper paperwork, bull shit! If we can destroy N Korea right now, we should be able to save Puerto Rico just as fast. To sum it up, this mayor was not prepared and the panic button for someone else to save her has been pushed.
LTC David Brown
Where exactly would you have prepositional supplies? Florida?, Gulf Coast, Atlantic seaboard? You do realize that every one of those areas could have been slammed after the hurricane had gone by Peurto Rico..
Maj John Bell
MAJ Byron Oyler Bullseye!!! I live in Northern Michigan. We typically have 2-3 ice storms per winter that bring down the power lines. Normally the power is back within 24-36 hours. The longest I've experienced is 6 days. I raise livestock and potable water is at a premium when we lose power. (No electricity - No Livestock Tank heaters). I have storage for 2000 gallons in my basement that I can hand pump to livestock tanks. (We go through about 600 gallons a day.) Plus a hand pump well in the basement. Problem is everyone knows it. During power outages, my neighbors all show up on my porch for water. But think I'm an SOB when I make them pump their own and limit them to 1 gallon per day per person in their house. They can't go to the grocery store and store a few gallon jugs, when water isn't scarce.
MAJ Byron Oyler
LTC David Brown - In a perfect world, I would have C130s set-up, already loaded with relief supplies and if they were located where the storm was positioned to hit, I would move inland and as the storm headed north, have them move SW then SE edging towards Puerto Rico. C130 would be initial choice as they have much more flexibility in regards to runways and who knows what initial landing options would be. Additional planning would have cargo ships loaded to the teeth and if it looked as if their docks were to get hit, send them northeast out to sea and around the hurricane and once far enough east, either hold position or start south to Puerto Rico. There are great options outside of waiting for people to really start suffering before saying, “Oh shit, we need to help.” My graduate education is emergency and disaster management, am a volunteer fire fighter, Civil Air Patrol, paramedic, and military registered nurse. Something I have studied a bit and there are options to make a difference far better than done at Houston and Puerto Rico. It is finding the people willing to pay and be willing to answer questions from seniors like you. I have been to meeting after meeting with people that make you and I look like privates and many only want to get to work when their asses are on the line. This is probably largely the reason the Mayor of San Juan did not plan before. Taking money from the already strained budget to store food and water from people already hungry does not win votes when no hurricane is in sight. Same goes in Houston fixing the flood plane areas. People want homes rebuilt there and life restored, taking money from that now to fix the flood problem that will happen again also would not get votes in the next election.
Darn men, can't live with them and can't live without them. If we just had more women to lead, where is Hillary? Oh, that's right, she got beaten like a rented mule because she was corrupt and a liar. Send in the next prime candidate for the pink hat crowd.
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