When the dam breaks . . .
(Guajataca Dam in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico on Sept. 23, 2017)
BLOG SESSION
September 23rd, 2017
Welcome back to another eye~opening day on the Blog!
Blog Readers, Followers & Visitors, today's Blog Session is going to be the beginning of a number of discussions that we will be having about what's going on in your part of the world.
We're going to be starting off with an island that has just been through a storm of disastrous proportions. The island is called, Puerto Rico. The storm that we are referring to is Hurricane Maria, which has racked up millions of dollars worth of damage and the count is not yet complete for the total amount of financial relief that will be needed for damages wrought by Hurricane Maria.
Our Blog topic is entitled, "When the dam breaks..." Let it be known that currently in Puerto Rico, there are serious issues going on...
Puerto Rican officials rushed to evacuate tens of thousands of people downstream of the failing dam and the massive scale of the disaster wrought by Hurricane Maria started to become clear.
In spite of the fact that Puerto Rico is now largely without electricity, running water is a luxury, and mobile phone reception is no longer taken for granted, the demand for plane tickets is high.
San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marin airport is struggling. Most flights this weekend were cancelled, even though the weather was safe again. At least one flight had to turn back because it lost communication with the airport control tower.
The mayor, Marcos Cruz Molina, said between 2,000 and 2,500 people, including himself, lost their homes. Like most of the island, Vega Baja is almost completely without communication.
Governor Ricardo Rossello reported on Sunday that officials still had not had communication with nine of 78 municipalities.
Puerto Ricans have used the Zello Walkie Talkie app to find information on missing people, through channels specific to municipalities. Nieves told the Vega Baja channel he would report back with as much information as possible.
Compare what is happening in your part of the world with what you've just heard about Puerto Rico. Are you fairing the same, worse, or better?
The infrastructure in Puerto Rico has been damaged...
Image courtesy of: © Provided by Guardian News
A man rides his bicycle through a damaged road
in Toa Alta, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sunday.
“The devastation in Puerto Rico has set us back nearly 20 to 30 years,” Jenniffer Gonzalez, Puerto Rico’s nonvoting representative in the US Congress told the Associated Press.
Puerto Rico is different from that of a week ago. There is currently destruction of properties, flattened structures, families without homes, and there is debris everywhere.
This is why people are also trying desperately to leave. On Sunday morning, dozens sat waiting in the airport, which does not have functioning escalators, elevators or air conditioning. Many waved paper or cardboard, trying to stay cool. By Sunday night, the only scheduled flight out had been cancelled. Only aid flights had departed. Hundreds of people camped out, desperate for a flight out.
Wading through the waters after Hurricane Maria
NOTE of ENCOURAGEMENT:
“Puerto Rico se levanta” – Puerto Rico rises up.
OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:
Around the World:
Dangerous Leaders
Be sure to join us back on the Blog for our next Blog Session!
Peace, Love & Light
By René Allen
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