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FEMA buried updates on Puerto Rico. WaPo just published article/tool to track updates HOURLY
This is great! From the Washington Post's Philip Bump:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/10/06/fema-buried-updates-on-puerto-rico-here-they-are/
At some point this week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency removed information from its website documenting how much of the island of Puerto Rico still lacked power or access to drinking water. Instead, our Jenna Johnson reported, the federal agency was relaying only positive information, documenting how many federal workers were on the ground and the extent to which roads had been cleared.
The reason for burying the bad news — fewer than 1 in 8 Puerto Ricans have electricity and barely over half have water — seems pretty obvious. President Trump has faced a great deal of criticism for his handling of the crisis on the island. (A poll released this week found that fewer than a third of Americans thought Trump was handling the Puerto Rico response well.) By conveying information that suggests the island is still struggling, which it very much is, FEMA would only be reinforcing that perception.
The government of Puerto Rico, however, is updating this information at the site Status.pr. There, you’ll see regular updates on a number of metrics, including electricity, water and cellphone coverage. It’s updated regularly — although it is all in Spanish.
We’ve taken that data for the past week or so and created a tool that will show you not only the status of each of the metrics tracked by Status.pr but also how those numbers have improved (or haven’t) over time. It updates every hour, showing the most recent numbers for any given day.
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The reason for burying the bad news — fewer than 1 in 8 Puerto Ricans have electricity and barely over half have water — seems pretty obvious. President Trump has faced a great deal of criticism for his handling of the crisis on the island. (A poll released this week found that fewer than a third of Americans thought Trump was handling the Puerto Rico response well.) By conveying information that suggests the island is still struggling, which it very much is, FEMA would only be reinforcing that perception.
The government of Puerto Rico, however, is updating this information at the site Status.pr. There, you’ll see regular updates on a number of metrics, including electricity, water and cellphone coverage. It’s updated regularly — although it is all in Spanish.
We’ve taken that data for the past week or so and created a tool that will show you not only the status of each of the metrics tracked by Status.pr but also how those numbers have improved (or haven’t) over time. It updates every hour, showing the most recent numbers for any given day.
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The tool is below that last paragraph,and it lets you click to "View trend for":
Power
Water
Cell service
Bus routes
Gas stations
Grocery stores
Banks
Ports
Mail service
Bump concludes that FEMA would rather not broadcast its slow progress - "So we will."
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Damn, incompetent US Postal service. The private sector can do the job so much better and cheaper.
Wish this wasn't necessary, but...
the "Ministry of Truth" (Reference to Orwell's "1984"
where everything is the opposite, and where "alternative facts" are created to "give the people" all the good news of the party, how well they are doing.
Did anyone here know that Trump invented the airplane? That he was the first man to fly?
"Who you gonna believe, Trump or your lying eyes?" 
