This is truly horrible to read. My heart drops at the thought, I can't imagine what it is like. I don't pray but they will be in my thoughts and I wish I could also do more to help. It is devastating to watch this happen in the side lines and be so powerless.
It pains me that people entering your giveaway are not bumping. So, despite not entering I will bump and try to remember to keep bumping. :)
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So many hurricanes recently. can't the earth give us a break?
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Helpful link for OP: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/updates/hurricane-maria-rumor-control
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My brother posted this today, saying "laughing is good": https://youtu.be/qF0-T4-WO2k
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I saw this today on Facebook (posted by a friend), and it made me think of your brother.
I'm sad about what happened. So now what? Now we continue to be kind to our neighbors, friends, and of course, family. And, we reach a little further because it makes the world make more sense to do so. Donate to the displaced, help those in need...whomever you feel that is, however you feel that is. Is it time, is it food, is it water, is it a skill, is it space, is it money, is it blood? You know. Shouldn't we all have been doing this anyway all along? We now get a shake up and a wake up call.
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Help how you can when you can. And if you think you can't, think again. No one is too busy or too important to at least hold a door, to smile, to make sure to always say thank you. And most of us, even we who may be a receiver of help, still have resources that we can share. It starts in the head and in the heart after all.
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We owe it to our family and community and world to strive to be as healthy and able bodied as possible, as mentally ready as possible and as personally stable as we can muster while remaining prepared to move, flex, and flow as required so we can move through a viscous visceral situations like we have seen over the last several weeks with the least amount of drag because we never know when reaching out will be for a hand up or to lend a hand.
I hope your friends and family are well and healthy.
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This just a general reminder or in response to the current state of the world?
"Compassion: that's the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them." Dr. McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", Star Trek.
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Credible reporters to follow
http://remezcla.com/lists/culture/trump-puerto-rico-tweets/?rfb
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Fucking despicable, I wish I was surprised. Hell even McCain has the balls to try and do the right, decent thing here.
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David Begnaud reporting directly from Ocean Park in San Juan, this is my brother's neighborhood-- I was literally walking on this street a few months ago. For perspective, this is one of the areas receiving the most aid.
https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/weeks-after-maria-clean-water-remains-scarce-in-puerto-rico/
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Puerto Rico, last night. Photo from NASA.
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Cellular/internet is still super spotty, but finally getting some current images from my brother
- Ocean Park, my brother's neighborhood
- Good friend Jared and my brother (on the right) with a pup they rescued
- Our buddy Nick rescued this doggie from a flooded restaurant
- View from Jared's apartment (which no longer has a roof)
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Federal officials privately admit there is a massive shortage of meals in Puerto Rico three weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.
Officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) say that the government and its partners are only providing 200,000 meals a day to meet the needs of more than 2 million people. That is a daily shortfall of between 1.8m and 5.8m meals.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/11/puerto-rico-food-shortage-hurricane-maria
“There is no urgency in the government response to this humanitarian crisis,” Andrés said. “They have all the officials and armed guards at headquarters, but they have no information about the island. They don’t even have a map they can share about who needs food. Fema is over-paying and it is under-delivering.”
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So I was watching the national news this evening, and they were talking about the aftermath of Harvey in Texas and the wildfires in California, but nothing about Puerto Rico or any progress being made there. In fact, no mention of PR at all. Very disheartening.
I come to post that, and see that tweet from Trump. /facepalm
EDIT: I shouldn't have checked his twitter after reading your comment ... disgusting.
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I don't think he (and most Americans) quite understands that PR is part of the US. Or it's just his racism showing.
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I bought this shirt the day it went on sale,before the fucker even got elected. It helps that "The Waste" are an old favorite band of mine.
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A sales clerk standing behind the checkout counter explained that the store had been out of stock for three days.
“Ni una sola botellita?” Ms. Díaz pleaded in Spanish. “Not even one little bottle?”
The employee shook her head and apologized
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/us/puerto-rico-water-fema-.html
My brother has been able to boil his water, he considers himself "super lucky" to have access to a generator. We have been raising a lot of money and buying generators and fuel, but it's still very hard to actually get the supplies to them.
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Thanks for providing a human touch to this tragedy.
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our hearts goes out a lot this days.............. sometime it lost the way back ..... :(
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UPDATES:
Two Months Since Hurricane Maria, Terrible Suffering Continues in Puerto Rico
If The Developing World Can Go Solar, Maybe Puerto Rico Can Too
Some more good news: Local (Chicago, Ill) schools ease enrollment to help Puerto Rican students get back to class
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Propose $146 Billion “Marshall Plan” for Puerto Rico
Thank you to my friend doctorofjournalism for keeping people abreast of continuing developments in Puerto Rico, providing this tragedy with a human voice lends importance to what is truly happening and reminds every decent person of the evil that humanity performs on itself but also the ways in which people can truly take care of one another.
doctorofjournalism:
Some good news from David B:
Anyway, here's some more bad:
https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2017/11/16/4339/puerto-rico-hurricane-survivors-should-stay-touch-fema
https://www.apnews.com/701b0e650089478497a45c1a3cd61cf7/Experts:-Puerto-Rico-may-struggle-for-more-than-a-decade
http://latinousa.org/2017/11/13/government-agencies-not-taking-action-dangers-electric-generators-puerto-rico/
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/16/564439127/when-will-power-come-back-to-puerto-rico-depends-who-you-ask
https://earther.com/puerto-ricos-rainforest-is-recovering-but-theres-a-lon-1820483535
Groups you can donate to that are verifiable as being on the ground and helping:
https://hispanicfederation.org/unidos/
https://www.facebook.com/IslandPeopleRecovery/
https://www.facebook.com/FamilyMealPR/
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