Fed Ex and Houston Astros have sent 150,000 lbs of food/water/medical supplies

[rainbow4321]

http://about.van.fedex.com/blog/2017-hurricane-season/

To an island. In the middle of a big ocean.

Imagine that.

[BigmanPigman]

1. How are they going to get delivered to the people?

Did they say?

[rainbow4321]

2. Just says they got items to San Juan and Borinquen, PR.

As of Friday, September 29th, FedEx has moved more than 700 tons of relief supplies into San Juan and Borinquen, Puerto Rico, including supplies for FedEx team members and their families. Also, FedEx worked with the Houston Astros Foundation to deliver over 150,000 pounds of relief including water, medicine, medical supplies, food, diapers and other items.

In central Mexico, which was struck by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, FedEx sent water treatment systems that help provide clean drinking water to 30,000 people a day.

FedEx committed an additional $1 million in cash and transportation support to ongoing hurricane and earthquake relief efforts. This gift brings our total commitment to $3 million. FedEx continues to work with our disaster relief agencies such as Direct Relief, Heart to Heart International, American Red Cross and Team Rubicon to provide transportation support to deliver relief.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I wonder if they can get Fed Ex planes and helicopters and truck drivers

down there? They already have all of that as part of their business.

[Turn CO Blue]

3. Frontier airlines landed there today with 91K cans of water from Oskar Blues brewery

But I have no idea if this stuff is getting to people since the roads are so wrecked with sinkholes, debris and crevasses.

[DK504]

4. I was curious about all the containers

sitting at the port while people in the hospital dying and the others in danger of contracting cholera and other diseases. I looked up some of the military helicopter we have at our disposal across the country that should be on any air craft carrier with in the neighbor of PR. Some of them include the Chinook Transport copters that can pick up the containers and just drop them off where ever they are needed. there are all kind off rescue copters that can go and go and pick up people and get them out of the badly affected areas and get them out of the areas and get them to areas with food and water.

There should be an aircraft carrier within 50 miles witch can get copters in the air and doing work that needs to be done right now. Where is the Coast Guard? We have cruisers every where and suddenly there are no where to be found. This is stunning. They are every where going after drug dealers but now they have disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle. After all this time the Sea Bees here in Mississippi could be there, should have been there build floating docks, you know like the ones they build ALL the time.

Even in the BIG water, the salty ocean water. Unfucking believable. These deaths will be on his head.

[demosincebirth]

6. It doesn't take much water to total 150,000 pounds

[cwydro]

7. That's great to hear.

I still cannot understand why the military doesn't send a transportation battalion out there. They have thousands of truck drivers...every branch of the service does.

And the Coast Guard has a lot of boats.

[lostnfound]

8. It's ironic Trump blames it on big ocean but it's the overland transport that's the challenge

Containers of relief supplies waiting at ports