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The
language is atrocious but I believe this article is saying something
few in the conventional media will be willing to tell you.
Puerto
Rico Going "MAD MAX!!!"
20
September, 2017
The
island of Puerto Rico is just DAYS away from full-on apocalyptic
doom, as 3.4 Million residents find themselves without food, without
water, without electricity and already, roving bands of savages are
engaging in looting and robbery, just HOURS after the departure of
Hurricane Maria.
For
all intents and purposes, Puerto Rico is destroyed.
I
got an satellite call from a friend in the capital city, San Juan. He
tells me electricity is out on the entire island. Windows and
doors were "blown-in" on almost every structure, INCLUDING
some of the cement hurricane shelters!
According
to him, every building in San Juan is missing its roof for as
far as the eye can see. Hundreds of structures are collapsed,
many others are leaning-over so badly, no one dares to enter them.
Raging
flood waters are everywhere; the island got two FEET of rain in less
than twelve hours.
The
floods are knocking homes off their foundations, swamping cars and
trucks, flinging them like toys.
The
Mayor of San Juan has announced that the electric grid in the city is
destroyed and it will be four
to six MONTHS before electric is restored!
Today
is Wednesday. By Saturday, everyone is expecting complete chaos
because what little food is salvageable, will be gone. Gangs
are already roaming and stealing.
The
Apocalypse had to start somewhere. For America, it appears to
be breaking out in Puerto Rico.
Hurricane Maria “Destroyed
Everything in Its Path” in Puerto Rico
“Roofs are peeling off. You can hear the wind.”
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosello tweeted this morning that he had asked President Donald Trump to declare Puerto Rico a disaster area. Local reports suggest that in at least one small fishing community near San Juan, the island’s capital city, 80 percent of the homes were completely destroyed. During a briefing on Wednesday afternoon, after the eye of the storm moved off the island’s northwest coast, Abner Gómez, the head of the island’s disaster management agency, said that the entire island was without power.
The governor told USA Today on Monday that he expected Maria to “essentially devastate most of the island,” and experts estimate the damage in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands will exceed $30 billion. The storm already has caused at least seven deaths in nearby Dominica and “mind-boggling” damage, according to amessage posted to Facebook by Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.
“On the forecast track, it would be the most destructive hurricane in Puerto Rico history,” Eric Blake, a scientist at the National Hurricane Center, tweeted yesterdaybefore the storm made landfall in Puerto Rico.
Satellite video shows eye of Hurricane #Maria moving over Puerto Rico. http://abcn.ws/2yeoj2J
Estimates of damage from that storm are close to $1 billion, according to Bloomberg News. The damage from these two storms is hitting an island already crippled with more than $70 billion in debt and an aging infrastructure that, on its best days, was in very bad shape. Kenneth McClintock, the island’s former Secretary of State, who rode out the storm from a house in the suburbs of San Juan, tells Mother Jones that the ongoing economic crisis has likely worsened Maria’s destruction on the island.
“Probably in the seven days [after Irma], we could have done more if the municipalities had more cash flow, which they did not,” McClintock says, as he was preparing to go outside and survey the damage. “So not all that could have been done in the recovery efforts was done.” The lack of cash prevented the cities and the state government from cleaning other debris out of the way. “The creeks are clogged up by foliage being washed into the creeks, so it may have actually aggravated the flash floods that we’re probably having right now.”
The storm is now projected to skirt the northeastern side of the Dominican Republic before passing to the east of the Turks and Caicos, according to the National Hurricane Center, leaving Puerto Ricans to pick up the pieces. “The information we have received is not encouraging,” Gómez, the head of the island’s disaster management agency, said Wednesday. “It’s a system that has destroyed everything it has had in its path.”
Catastrophe.
Via
Facebook
"The
Puerto Rico and the San Juan that we knew yesterday is no longer
there," San Juan's mayor told NBC's Gadi Schwartz.in an
interview this afternoon in the aftermath of Major Hurricane Maria.
100%
of Puerto RIco is without power; it appears much of the electrical
grid was destroyed today and needs to be rebuilt. Such an endeavor
could take months or longer.
"We
have to rebuild the capital city of the country, which has to tell
the world that we are here," said the mayor of San Juan, Carmen
Yulín Cruz.
Antonio
Paris Tweeted (@antonioparis) this image a short time ago: "I
receive images from Puerto Rico. My sister just sent me this. It’s
from Utuado my hometown."
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