Reply #12: From Miami..... [View All]

[Sarah Ibarruri]

Here in Miami-Dade: Coral Gables has electricity again. The Kendall area as well. A good part of the southwest area. Not all. The poor are doing badly. They don't have gas, or even a car to get to the areas where there is now a bit of distribution of water, ice and rations. They live day-to-day, and can't work since power is out in many min. wage businesses, construction, etc., so I suspect they'll be unable to pay their rents and end up evicted and on the street. I understand FEMA sometimes provides a little stipend, but these people might not even know that, and have no way to get to FEMA, and so on, and so on...

Broward is doing badly. The areas nearest to the ocean are without electric, and barely have a trickle of water. A lot of these areas are very wealthy, so I don't feel as bad for them. Having money helps because one can always find a way to leave and go elsewhere.

Today I heard that Coral Springs looks like a battleground. They're just beginning to get electricity.

Schools are all closed Monday.

Some substations have had to be rebuilt. There's an electricity substation on 163rd street in Dade, that looks like the Jolly Green Giant took a giant hammer to it, and threw all the little broken pieces of it out into the intersection.

I can't even imagine what the New Orleans folks have suffered, and are suffering being displaced. I still haven't heard the number of people who drowned in their homes in N.O. I'm guessing the authorities have been told to keep that quiet so as not to cause a revolution.