OMG Millions of water bottles sitting on runway in Puerto Rico for a year

[DesertRat]

There was NO plan for that island

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

@DavidBegnaud
BREAKING: What may be millions of water bottles. meant for victims of Hurricane Maria, have been sitting on a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, since last year, according to @FEMA, which confirmed the news to me, late tonight, after pictures, posted today on social media, went viral.

[joshcryer]

1. I guarantee you the contractor got paid, too.

Whoever delivered it got full price per bottle. I bet that was a several million dollar delivery.

[Demovictory9]

2. omg

[Volaris]

3. How, AT LEAST, did the delivery company NOT tell the locals that was there,

so at a minimum, they could go get it themselves if they had no other choice?

[a kennedy]

4. This is absolutely disgraceful.

[Cha]

5. Fucking Lying Sociopathic Psycho

needs to go.

[Beartracks]

7. *Republicans* need to go, not just Trump. Trump's their guy.

Republicans in office are complicit.

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[Cha]

9. Thanks for adding that important

information.

[Beartracks]

6. But, but, Trump said it was all really successful!!!1!

[DesertRat]

8. "Incredibly successful"

"one of the best jobs that has ever been done". Lying, demented narcissist.

[procon]

10. That's criminal. Fraud, Waste and Abuse!

People died in PR because they couldn't get potable water. How much taxpayer money was spent to buy all that water, ship it in and then unload it and leave it to rot??? WHY wasn't it distributed?

Even it the roads were bad and they had no trucks or drivers, there were helicopters and planes that could have been hauling water everywhere. We operated the goddamn Berlin Airlift to carry almost 9K tons of supplies every day to people who in bombed out, ruined cities after WWII. In contrast, the ever incompetent Trump couldn't even deliver water, not to the people of Flint, or the citizens of Puerto Rico.

[DesertRat]

11. Well said

It's maddening!

[LittleGirl]

12. Yep, sitting in that sun and heat

I wouldn't touch that water with a ten foot poll. It's rotted alright.
That is infuriating. People died without that water.
Damn it.

[bora13]

13. that's winning to them

get the $$ and run. don't tell anyone about the stash to make the puerto rican's burn.

[grendelsd]

14. Horrible on so many levels...

It is terrible that they did not distribute the bottles, there is no excuse for that!

However, individual bottles of water is a stupid way to distribute water. What company made profit off of putting water is bottles which will eventually end up polluting the sea.

You need trucks to distribute the bottles. Crates, packaging (more plastic) and the bottles themselves. OH, and they had to be flown there

We should have tanker trucks available with desalination / sterilization ready to deliver to remote areas for recovery. Water in plastic bottles should be outlawed.

Look, I get the immediate need, but some one made a profit shipping the bottles and abandoning them there. We need, in rescue efforts to concentrate on sustainability.

Again, what was done was criminal and I think the people who shipped those bottles should be in prison, however, this is not the solution and it never will be. You had to get trucks there, technically, it would have been less effort deliver tanker trucks with desalination units. Logistically, the only problem is jettisoning the parasites who make a profit by delivering the most expensive solution in a crisis.

[Raastan]

15. + 1

[DesertRat]

18. Yes!

[Hortensis]

16. Expect to hear "unsung success" from the right,

although I don't think we'll be hearing it chanted at rallies (give it a try ).

This requires seeing truth as lies. But, hey, loyalty to the leader is virtue. Lies are truth.

[dalton99a]

17. Kick

[Ilsa]

19. I wonder if there are food rations rotting outside somewhere?

Rsmember when food kits with cheese crackers, fruit gummies, and other non-nutritious food items were in those kits? The contractor was in Georgia sending that garbage.

When families in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico asked for food, a Georgia company answered the call with candy bars.
Baby Ruths, to be exact. Also fruity Airheads candies. Cheez-Its and pop-top tins of barbecue flavored potted meat came on the side.

[DesertRat]

20. I'd forgotten about that!

[fescuerescue]

21. How the heck does the airport officials miss that?

Seems like it would interfere with airplanes landing etc.