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By Jenna Johnson October 5 at 3:08 PM
As of Wednesday, half of Puerto Ricans had access to drinking water and 5 percent of the island had electricity, according to statistics published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on its Web page documenting the federal response to Hurricane Maria. By Thursday morning, both of those key metrics were no longer on the Web page.
FEMA spokesman William Booher noted that both measures are still being reported on a website maintained by the office of Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, www.status.pr. According to that website, which is in Spanish, 9.2 percent of the island now has power and 54.2 percent of residents have access to drinking water. Booher said that these measures are also shared in news conferences and media calls that happen twice a day, but he didn't elaborate on why they are no longer on the main FEMA page.
Our mission is to support the governor and his response priorities through the unified command structure to help Puerto Ricans recover and return to routines. Information on the stats you are specifically looking for are readily available on the website maintained by the governor's office, Booher said.
The statistics that are on the FEMA page, as of Thursday afternoon, include these: There are now 14,000 federal workers on the ground in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, up from 12,300 earlier in the week. All airports, federally maintained ports and post offices are open. More than 30 miles of roadway have been cleared, up from about 20 miles earlier in the week. About 65 percent of grocery stores have reopened, along with nearly all hospitals and dialysis centers. And 64 percent of wastewater treatment plants are working on generator power.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/05/fema-removes-statistics-about-drinking-water-access-and-electricity-in-puerto-rico-from-website/?utm_term=.26f37f2e9250
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)tanyev
(42,566 posts)Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)lies is all they got...
spanone
(135,844 posts)he made a mockery of their disaster.
pence is going there today....they should run his ass off the island
trump can put anything he wants to on their website
the media has effectively left and Puerto Ricans have no way to get their stories out.
fuck trump
Javaman
(62,530 posts)dlk
(11,569 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)More like embarrassed.
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)to not let facts get in the way of their "success!"
IronLionZion
(45,452 posts)is not a metaphor for anything happening in the news lately
Girard442
(6,075 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)solar offers from telsa should be accepted by Governor, or if he is "to busy" to speak to telsa...
some of the 76 Mayors should CALL and discuss/ accept solar set-ups from telsa.