Is Hurricane Maria worse than Irma?

[JackLuis]

Is Hurricane Maria worse than Irma?

While Jose threatens the east coast, Maria is aimed at Puerto Rico and They are already broke from Rethuglican fuckery. A Cat 4 Hurricane is nothing to sneeze at.

Powerful Hurricane Maria left destruction in Dominica on Tuesday, and is fast approaching Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands—both of which were already hit hard by Hurricane Irma in early September. Maria is expected to bring maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reports. The imminent second blow from this brutal hurricane season presents safety and public health challenges that could become even more catastrophic than the first Category 5 storm.

It must be the Creator setting us up for electing Trump?

 

[Iceprincess12]

Many believe Mary to mean "sea of bitterness" or "sea of sorrow." Could be biblical or Egyption. Irma is German for whole or universal.

Depends on which one affected you. If you weren't, they are both destructive. If Irma hit you and destroyed your house, she is probably worse to you. Perspective counts.

No one wins when women are on a rampage.

 

[Hypoxia]

I've not partaken of audio media lately so I don't know if the common pronunciation is Mar-EE-ah or Mar-EYE-ah. I go with the latter. That was the name of the first named storm, in Prof. George Stewart's classic novel STORM. (Much better than the later FIRE. Much less political than EARTH ABIDES.)

Conspiracy theory: the Russians have orbital solar mirrors in place and are enhancing and directing storms to destroy USA industrial and energy infrastructure. It's war, folks. Nuke-em.

 

[Iceprincess12]

Are the Russians that clever? It could be misdirection by China. They own us, I checked my tag.

 

[DrDelirium]

Are the Russians that clever? It could be misdirection by China. They own us, I checked my tag.

What do you mean "they"? Everyone is Chinese, just not everyone knows it yet.

 

[Iceprincess12]

What do you mean "they"? Everyone is Chinese, just not everyone knows it yet.

Hunger every hour explained. Also why I always get an eggroll with #2.

 

[JackLuis]

Terrifying videos show Hurricane Maria unleashing 150-mph winds and flooding on Puerto Rico

Trump promised that he'd help with the reconstruction. Puerto Rico is fucked now.

 

[JackLuis]

Puerto Rico still fucked up!

Unrelenting water imperils Puerto Ricans

LOIZA, Puerto Rico—Spend a day wending down unpredictable country roads outside San Juan and the hurt Hurricane Maria inflicted on Puerto Rico becomes crushingly evident.

Maria drenched town after town east of the capital, dumping so much water that people who had already lost their roofs to the Category 4 storm's winds, and then saw their few belongings washed away by unrelenting water.

And the floods threatened the island's western reaches too. A crack opened Friday in the nine-decade-old Guajataca Dam, forcing the evacuations of about 70,000 people in the towns of Isabela and Quebradillas, west of where Maria's eye left Puerto Rico Wednesday. The mountains near the dam got more than 15 inches of rain after Maria left, overfilling the reservoir.

"It's time to get people out," Gov. Ricardo Rossello said as a fleet of buses was cobbled together to take residents away from the region.

Still, the picture of Maria's aftermath continues to be frustratingly incomplete. Many of the island's far-flung corners — and pockets much closer than that — remain inaccessible because of submerged roads and nonexistent cellphone service. At the same time, San Juan, always a haven of relative privilege, came back to life.

 

[JawnKarTurr]

Is Hurricane Maria worse than Irma?

While Jose threatens the east coast, Maria is aimed at Puerto Rico and They are already broke from Rethuglican fuckery. A Cat 4 Hurricane is nothing to sneeze at.



It must be the Creator setting us up for electing Trump?

It is funny when windbag Pat Robertson said some disasters were because America embraced gay marriage (or some BS sounding like that) most rational people laughed at him. No liberals who say it's climate change (used to be global warming) say no it isn't science its mother nature punishing us. Nice to know loons aren't on just one side of the political spectrum.

 

[JackLuis]

Travelers swamp Puerto Rico’s main airport; dam on verge of collapse

undreds of stranded travelers filled the sweltering halls of San Juan International Airport on Monday anxious to know when they could leave and reconnect with families after Hurricane Maria devastated power and communications across the island.

Fearful of checking out of hotels in case they could not get on the few flights available, worried passengers waited in long lines at Puerto Rico’s main airport, struggling to get through to loved ones and airlines alike.

“Everything is hearsay at the moment because there is no communication,” said 31-year-old Rene Kessler, a medical student from Baltimore, Maryland, preparing to spend the night in the airport ahead of what he hoped would be a flight back to the United States.

Puerto Rican officials have confirmed at least 10 storm-related fatalities on the island, and the hurricane was blamed for at least 19 other deaths across the Caribbean, the bulk of them on the devastated island nation of Dominica.

A microcosm of the battered island, the San Juan airport is a top priority in efforts by Puerto Rico’s cash-strapped government to repair the vast damage caused by Maria. Experts say the work will take months and likely run into tens of billions of dollars.

Closed for days following the storm, the airport is a major test of Puerto Rico’s ability to transport people and supplies and overcome the communications vacuum that has plagued the island since the storm.

 

[Hypoxia]

It is funny when windbag Pat Robertson said some disasters were because America embraced gay marriage (or some BS sounding like that) most rational people laughed at him. No liberals who say it's climate change (used to be global warming) say no it isn't science its mother nature punishing us. Nice to know loons aren't on just one side of the political spectrum.

I suspect fucktards ranting GAWD DONE IT! are quite serious, whilst libs blame MoNat with tongue in cheek, parodying the fucktards. Funny how GAWD almost always misses the hotbeds of perverted liberal atheist sin but manages to slam poor believers regularly. Does GAWD hate poor Xians?

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

A bus load of Puerto Ricans went over a cliff. The driver and all but one kid out of 87 died.

The mother was show holding her kid saying 'God was watching out for us."

Same thing in Key West and Houston, God saved us even though our house was blown away.

 

[sr71plt]

Same thing in Key West and Houston, God saved us even though our house was blown away.

And apparently they weren't paying attention when God whispered that it wasn't a good idea to build their house on the beach.

 

[JackLuis]

Senate Democratic leader Schumer calls for speedy Puerto Rico relief

U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Monday said lawmakers from his party “insist” Puerto Rico be included in any supplemental federal disaster relief packages for hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico last week, tearing apart buildings and infrastructure, flooding communities and downing communications to nearly all of the U.S. territory’s 3.4 million residents.

“Puerto Rico has taken a serious punch to the gut,” Schumer said during his opening remarks on the Senate floor. “They need our help they, need it now.”

Schumer also urged his constituents to add the U.S. Virgin Islands, which were ravaged by Hurricane Irma several weeks ago, and western U.S. states ravaged by wildfires to future hurricane-related federal relief packages.

He asked for additional aid packages to be prepared quickly.

 

[JawnKarTurr]

I suspect fucktards ranting GAWD DONE IT! are quite serious, whilst libs blame MoNat with tongue in cheek, parodying the fucktards. Funny how GAWD almost always misses the hotbeds of perverted liberal atheist sin but manages to slam poor believers regularly. Does GAWD hate poor Xians?

I'm sure you find the irony of human mistery funny and keep doing damage control.

 

[Hypoxia]

I'm sure you find the irony of human mistery funny and keep doing damage control.

I do not find human misery funny. After my US Army service I joined a National Guard medic unit precisely to relieve human misery in disasters. What was your service?

I find fucktards attributing natural disasters to the caprice of a jealous deity (who is a bad shot) to be disgusting. I find victim-blamers disgusting. Racist and sexist pigs are disgusting. Reactionary propagandists are disgusting. I don't care much for beets, either.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump offers excuse for Puerto Rico while bragging about ‘A+’ response: ‘It’s an island in … a big ocean’

President Donald Trump bragged about the federal response to hurricane damage in Puerto Rico while also citing geographical inaccuracies to excuse government failures.

The U.S. territory is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis after Hurricane Maria devastated the island last week, and Trump spent the weekend complaining about NFL players instead of directing relief efforts.

“The mayor of San Juan was very nice this morning, thanking us for the great job we’ve done with FEMA,” Trump said Tuesday during a news conference. “We really have — we’ve worked very, very hard in Puerto Rico. It’s very tough because it’s an island. In Texas, we can ship the trucks right out there and we can do — we’ve gotten A-pluses on Texas and on Florida, and we will on Puerto Rico. But the difference is it’s an island, sitting in the middle of an ocean.”

That is why we have a yuuuge Navy, Donald!

 

[DrDelirium]

Trump offers excuse for Puerto Rico while bragging about ‘A+’ response: ‘It’s an island in … a big ocean’



That is why we have a yuuuge Navy, Donald!

That is not why we have a 'yuuuge Navy'. Can't put a truck on a missile frigate or a nuclear submarine. US sea-lift capacity is actually pretty limited at this time, to the point where expeditionary forces are being deployed without their armor contingent.

There are obviously solutions, but they involve private carriers, and I have no idea what kinds of legal restrictions on their rapid employment might exist. I suspect someone might need special budgetary authority to hire them, and as far as I know there are not a lot of private shippers with the kind of roll-on, roll-off, high speed transit capabilities that military landing craft are designed for, and which I think we'd all like to see moving men and materiel to Puerto Rico.

I believe that at the moment the US has ten San Antonio-class LPD's, eight Whidbey Island-class LSD's, four Harper's Ferry-class LSD's and eight Wasp-class LHD's that might be useful in getting large numbers of troops and their equipment ashore rapidly, but not so much for the amount of material need to help three and half millions people.

 

[sharingfantasies]

From what I read, the government had resources and money ready to go before the hurricane hit, they were waiting for two things: the hurricane to pass and Trump's signature so they could get in there. Once the hurricane passed, they were still waiting for the signature. His spokesperson said it would be a few days before he would sign it. I assume it has been signed by now, but I haven't seen anything that verifies it.

 

[phrodeau]

Keith Olbermann: Trump is Destroying Puerto Rico.

 

[jaF0]

That is not why we have a 'yuuuge Navy'. Can't put a truck on a missile frigate or a nuclear submarine.

But you can put several on a C-5.

 

[jaF0]

And how many containers on a container ship which PR has ports to handle?

 

[DrDelirium]

But you can put several on a C-5.

What has that got to do with the US Navy?

 

[DrDelirium]

And how many containers on a container ship which PR has ports to handle?

What has that got to do with the US Navy?

 

[Adre]

Is Hurricane Maria worse than Irma?

I guess not. I mean, Trump hasn't been bothered to go see.