The Puerto Rico Thread

Skeptic Ginger said:
Hurricane Maria death toll jumps to 34 in Puerto Rico
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I question the utility of using death tolls as a measure of the extent of disasters. By that metric the shooting at Las Vegas was nearly as big a disaster as Harvey or Irma.

Having said that, this new number itself gives us an idea of how total the devastation is in PR. Two weeks later, and they are still counting, because there is so much damage.

And there still remains a significant portion of the island where they haven't even been able to access well enough to get a complete survey of the cost in human lives.

Good thing for them it wasn't a "real catastrophe", I guess.
 
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Don't have an empire if you aren't willing to save the day when your colonies need lots of help.
 
Meadmaker said:
I haven't read the news articles yet. Those are real quotes? Really?
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I usually avoid actually hearing him but they cut in the feed on my morning drive. It would have been a fine performance for the emcee of a local Elk Lodge benefit dinner. Not so much for the leader of the free world comparing human death tolls as if someone wins a prize.
 
quadraginta said:
I question the utility of using death tolls as a measure of the extent of disasters. By that metric the shooting at Las Vegas was nearly as big a disaster as Harvey or Irma.

Having said that, this new number itself gives us an idea of how total the devastation is in PR. Two weeks later, and they are still counting, because there is so much damage.

And there still remains a significant portion of the island where they haven't even been able to access well enough to get a complete survey of the cost in human lives.

Good thing for them it wasn't a "real disaster", I guess.
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I'm in the choir here. Trump cherry picked the death rate as if that nullifies the criticism his administration hasn't been able to distribute supplies and get power/water/phones back up in such a small island.

And his administration had nothing to do with keeping the number of deaths down anyway.

He is such a self-centered jerk. It just gets worse and worse.
 
Trump doesn't seem to appreciate that Puerto Rico now has no electricity, water, or medical supplies. That's a serious matter for them.
 
A significant portion of Katrina's death toll was people in care at hospitals and homes of the elderly, or being nursed at home, who just weren't nursed sufficiently because of evacuations or lack of water and electricity. That death toll is probably still rising in PR, and requires a fast and massive response. You get fast and massive responses only when top leadership is fully committed.

Top leadership hasn't even realised problem yet.

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In comparison:
This is what happened when electricity wasn't restored to a neighborhood in Havana within four days after the category-5 hurricane Irma:
Government representatives were unsuccessful in their attempts to silence the protest, giving excuses to over 500 people. Protesters continued to shout slogans like “people have the power”, “lights, water and food”, “strike”.
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=127278
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However, US Americans seem to think that the failure to restore electricity after a hurricane is an obvious sign of communist repression …
 
In comparison:
This is what happened when electricity wasn't restored to a neighborhood in Havana within four days after the category-5 hurricane Irma:
Government representatives were unsuccessful in their attempts to silence the protest, giving excuses to over 500 people. Protesters continued to shout slogans like “people have the power”, “lights, water and food”, “strike”.
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=127278
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However, US Americans seem to think that the failure to restore electricity after a hurricane is an obvious sign of communist repression …
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Twelve of the eighty people who died in Florida due to Irma were residents of a nursing home who died as a result of the power failure.
 
Katrina had a real impact on the demographics of Houston and the surrounding area. I wonder where displaced Puerto Ricans are going to end up. Mostly Florida?
 
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