Has Puerto Rico been forgotten already? What's the status down there?

[CurtEastPoint]

I have not heard much in the last few days.

Sadly, I just answered my own question. How can this country treat its citizens so poorly?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/puerto-rico-power-hospitals.html?_r=0

[icymist]

1. Weeks After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico Struggles To Turn On The Lights (NPR)

More than two weeks after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico, the island's power grid remains in shambles, and authorities say it will take months to fully restore electricity.

Nearly 90 percent of the island is still without power, which means millions of people remain without electricity weeks after the storm, says José H. Román Morales, president of Puerto Rico's Energy Commission, which regulates the island's electric power authority.

In a news conference on Friday, Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló could not say when the power grid would be fully up and running.

"There is no estimated date right now," he said. "We have established, right at the beginning of this week, we want to have 10 percent of the energy generation in Puerto Rico. Now we're up to 10.6 percent. And our expectation is, within the next month, to have 25 percent."

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/10/556837364/weeks-after-hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-struggles-to-turn-on-the-lights

House Speaker Paul Ryan Heading to Puerto Rico as Death Toll Rises (NBC)

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan is heading to Puerto Rico at week’s end, a day after the House is expected to consider a disaster relief spending package and as the death toll has risen.

His visit will take place more than three weeks after Hurricane Maria left millions on the island without electricity and water and with many still unreached by disaster supplies or without sustained supplies.

On Tuesday, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló raised the death toll to 43.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/house-speaker-paul-ryan-heading-puerto-rico-death-toll-rises-n809541

And then there's this asshat:
Zuckerberg apologizes for his tone-deaf VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico devastation

Mark Zuckerberg is apologizing today after his Facebook Live video discussing his company’s efforts to aid Puerto Rico’s recovery raised some serious eyebrows.

Yesterday, Zuckerberg used the company’s VR app Spaces to tour through an NPR-produced 360 video of Puerto Rico. Zuck’s cartoon avatar directed attention towards various features of Puerto Rico’s destruction while another Facebook executive remarked “it’s crazy to feel like you’re in the middle of it.”

The video induced quite a few cringes as the tech billionaire visited Puerto Rico’s destruction inside virtual reality as a cartoon.

“Do you want to teleport somewhere else?” Zuckerberg’s VR avatar asked as he wrapped up his conversation about Puerto Rico. “Yeah maybe back to California?” another executive answered.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/10/zuckerberg-apologizes-for-his-tone-deaf-vr-cartoon-tour-of-puerto-rico-devastation/

[malaise]

2. And they are about to face more rain

all night

It is horrific - I can't believe what I'm seeing or hearing.

[spanone]

3. saw some reports on cnn yesterday.....

[Doreen]

4. My friends neighbor just heard from his mother for the first

time two days ago.

[dubyadiprecession]

5. it's a lot of never ending bad news for Puerto Rico.

I heard on MSNBC that some recent thunderstorms have knocked out some of the progress made in fixing downed power lines.