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FRONTLINE: Blackout In Puerto Rico
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Inside the Federal Response to Maria: “Is This Really the Best FEMA Can Do?”
May 1, 2018 /
by Patrice Taddonio Assistant Director of Audience Development
Just two weeks ago, nearly seven months to the day after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, power went out on the entire island — again.
It was only the latest development in a troubled recovery effort that left millions of Americans in the dark for months after the storm made landfall last September.
In the new documentary, Blackout in Puerto Rico, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the federal response to Hurricane Maria — and uncover a government relief effort in chaos, struggling with key contracts, basic supplies and its own workforce.
Especially in contrast to the government’s response to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma on the U.S. mainland.
In the above excerpt, NPR’s Laura Sullivan, the documentary’s correspondent, reports that just over a week after the storms hit, the federal government had three times as many people on the ground in Texas, and twice as many in Florida, as it did in Puerto Rico. Nine days into the disaster, federal officials had handed out, on average, twice as much water, and more than four times as many meals and tarps in Houston and Florida.
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more: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/inside-the-federal-response-to-maria-is-this-really-the-best-fema-can-do/
May 1, 2018 /
by Patrice Taddonio Assistant Director of Audience Development
Just two weeks ago, nearly seven months to the day after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, power went out on the entire island — again.
It was only the latest development in a troubled recovery effort that left millions of Americans in the dark for months after the storm made landfall last September.
In the new documentary, Blackout in Puerto Rico, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the federal response to Hurricane Maria — and uncover a government relief effort in chaos, struggling with key contracts, basic supplies and its own workforce.
Especially in contrast to the government’s response to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma on the U.S. mainland.
In the above excerpt, NPR’s Laura Sullivan, the documentary’s correspondent, reports that just over a week after the storms hit, the federal government had three times as many people on the ground in Texas, and twice as many in Florida, as it did in Puerto Rico. Nine days into the disaster, federal officials had handed out, on average, twice as much water, and more than four times as many meals and tarps in Houston and Florida.
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more: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/inside-the-federal-response-to-maria-is-this-really-the-best-fema-can-do/
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Remember when the U.S.A. could do stuff?
