“Why do people in Puerto Rico have such a hard time recovering after the hurricane?”
Well, one of many reasons is the cost of living. Pair that with the median household income ($18626) being lower than any state in the US ($40593 - Mississippi), and you’ve got a problem.
Today at Amigo Altomar in Guaynabo, PR; a HALF gallon of milk costs $3.06. Tuesday at Target at 132nd and Maple in Omaha, NE; a gallon cost $1.80. This is just one of many lopsided things that we deal with here.
Almost double the price for less milk? Seems like a pretty crappy deal, yeah?
It’s because it is.
-my friend Kristine, live in San Juan
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Course you're cherry picking those milk prices. I could quote you a gallon being $8.99 (took me about 5 seconds to get that price, I could probably get it higher with any effort) in the USA, just a matter of where you specifically target it. Second, it would take me a GENEROUS 115 gallons of gas to get to Omaha, at the again generous cost of $2.30/gal for gas, that gallon of milk is going to be about $232., I'll pass.
Kind of a sad commentary, but I think you said you work for the media?
Guess that might explain it.
Not that it isn't a rough deal, I caught the very tail of a story on the news about Duke Energy pulling their crews out last week, didn't hear why, but their person was saying they needed the trucks and crews etc locally (?)
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What are you talking about? Of course it's equitable, the only cherry picking is to make the point as clear as possible: Households on the mainland earning twice as much as PR households, will pay half as much for most products.
By the way, this isn't new in any way. PR is an island, therefore most goods are imported. This is only to highlight the multiplicative issues for disaster recovery.
Kind of a sad commentary, but I think you said you work for the media?
Not in the way you think. I follow this issue for personal reasons, Puerto Rico is my motherland. My family and friends live there.
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I know you knew the island part, which was why I didn't even bring that up.
My point, which may have been lost in some of the sarcasm, was that when I personally see obvious specifically picked examples like that it always just makes me wonder about the rest of the details, and actually blunts the point you're trying to make.
Having no power at my place for five days this summer in the heat was pretty unbearable, every single day sucked. (and even then work had power, so it was just trying to sleep that was really bad, and there was about a 0% chance I might starve)
Hope your friends and family will be doing better soon, the real bitch is once anything else happens that the world focuses on, people tend to forget these things, except those still suffering with whatever the aftermath is.
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On top of that, he took a potshot at the opposing party at an event honoring Native American veterans?
The man knows no shame.
/facepalm
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wth... that's not even funny as a joke made between friends and this idiot says it in public. <_<
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Its not easy to recover from disaster... emotional, physical and financial. Hopefully they will be able to rebuilt whats been lost :D
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Bump.
Remember to bump the thread if you enter any GA's. It's not hard.
I am watching.
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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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