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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'If anyone can hear us help.' Puerto Rico's mayors describe widespread devastation from...Maria
If anyone can hear us help. Puerto Ricos mayors describe widespread devastation from Hurricane MariaBy Samantha Schmidt and Daniel Cassady September 23 at 6:43 PM
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO In the northern Puerto Rican town of Vega Baja, the floodwaters reached more than 10 feet. Stranded residents screamed save me, save me, using the lights in their cellphones to help rescue teams find them in the darkness, the towns mayor said.
In Loiza, a north coastal town that already had been ravaged by Hurricane Irma, 90 percent of homes 3,000 were destroyed by Hurricane Maria just days later. In communities across the island, bridges collapsed and highways were severely damaged, isolating many residents. In Rio Grande, officials had yet to access a number of families stuck in their homes, three days after the powerful storm made landfall.
When speaking about his towns destruction, Ramon Hernandez Torres, mayor of the southern city of Juana Diaz, took a long pause, his voice catching and his eyes filling with tears. Its a total disaster, he said.
Hurricane Maria pounded the entire island of Puerto Rico on Wednesday, but the scope of the damage had been speculative and unclear since, in large part because towns across the U.S. territory have been completely off the grid. Though images from the air showed incredible destruction, mayors were unable to reach central government for leadership and help because communication was impossible. No telephones, cellphones, or Internet. No power. No passage through roads that had been washed away or blocked with trees and power lines.
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'If anyone can hear us help.' Puerto Rico's mayors describe widespread devastation from...Maria (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2017
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Nay
(12,051 posts)1. Has our moronic dotard president even said one word about the aid that is going
to our territory, when it will arrive, the number of boats, planes, helicopters, etc.? Or is he still bloviating about the NFL players?
yardwork
(61,650 posts)2. I'm wondering the same.