Underreported Point on Puerto Rico

[BmorePat87]

(10-01-2017, 01:38 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Everyone is worried about their families during a disaster. That doesn't mean you should refuse to do your job to help others.

Otherwise the National Guard would never be able to help anyone. Or the police. Or the coast guard, etc, etc. They all have families, and they are probably worried about them too. It doesn't mean you ignore everything else.

Has there ever been a highly efficient relief effort where the local populace didn't help? You think the people of Austin just said "nah, I am worried more about me, F everyone else, I will just wait for everyone else to help me and ***** loudly when they don't do it quick enough" and that's why it went so well?

It isn't like they didn't know the hurricane was coming, yet they apparently made no plans to be able to distribute badly needed supplies that are just sitting there? You say how many people don't have water like it is an excuse for them to not show up. They and many others would have water if they showed up to do their job.

A C-130 can only land in so many places, and it only carries as much or less than a semi anyway. No relief effort will go well if the local populace isn't interested in helping themselves as well.

That's how you see the difference between the Haiti earthquake aftermath, and the tsunami aftermath that caused the Fukushima meltdown. Both had governments pouring money and supplies into it, but only one had the populace actively helping and working together to make things better.

I'd love to live in a fantasy world where Puerto Rican's are lazy and don't care and Trump is a competent leader, but we don't. Most Puerto Rican's are in conditions where they can't even function. With roads impassable and communication cut off to 70% of people, they likely cannot report to work nor can they communicate to their bosses that they need rescue or help getting to work. If only 30% can even communicate with the outside world and 20% are reporting back, that's actually sounds pretty good.

But let's go with them not caring. It makes the dude sitting easy in his country club look like the hero even if he ignored them for a week while telling about football