Puerto Ricans leave for US mainland as storm woes linger

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press




By GISELA SALOMON and CLAUDIA TORRENS
1 hour ago

MIAMI (AP) — Lourdes Rodriguez fled Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria filled her home in the northern town of Vega Baja with mud, ruining mattresses and other belongings. She thought it would be a short stay with her daughter in Florida, but three weeks later there’s still no power or water back home.

“We’re going to be here indefinitely,” the 59-year-old retiree said in an interview at the daughter’s home in Tampa. “It’s been crazy, totally unexpected, like nothing I’ve experienced before.”

In San Juan, Efrain Diaz Figueroa, 70, sat listening to a battery-powered radio amid the wreckage of his home, its walls collapsed into the yard and clothes and mattresses soaking in the rain. A sister was coming to take him to family in Boston: “I’ll live better there,” Figueroa said.

Tens of thousands of islanders left for the U.S. mainland to escape the immediate aftermath of the storm. With conditions back home still grim — about 85 percent of residents still lack electricity and 40 percent are without running water, and neither is expected to be fully restored for months — many find themselves scrambling to build new lives away from the island.

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[greymattermom]

1. New Orleans lost population after Katrina

and the same thing will happen to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. We don't hear much about Houston. Is it happening there too?

[DK504]

4. They need to move here and change the voting demographic.

Maybe Alabama and Georgia would be a good place as well. Change the South.

[crazycatlady]

5. A state like Wyoming wouldn't be that hard

Especially if the senate primary contenders are Eric Prince (Blackwater, Besty DeVos' brother) and Foster Friess (Rick Santorum's sugar daddy, asprin between the knees).

[deurbano]

6. Hate to see this happen, but if they are moving anyway....

[True_Blue]

9. Here in AZ too

We're not that far from turning blue.

[George II]

2. Each and every one, if they stay in the US, will be Democratic voters.

[delisen]

3. When does Russia move in?

[doc03]

7. Trumpians will want them deported next nt

[IronLionZion]

8. I really hope the Democrats are helping them get settled

our party needs to earn their votes and not just assume they'll vote for us because Trump sucks. They'll remember who were being neighborly and who were being Grand Old Pendejos.

[Bayard]

10. So when will they start being denied entry?

They are dark-skinned terrorists you know. And they will take our jobs.

[BiminiTwisted]

11. Is there an organized effort to register these Americans to vote?