Trump to visit hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico
Source: The Hill
BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 09/21/17 11:22 AM EDT
President Trump said Thursday hed visit the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which has been devastated by Hurricane Maria.
Seated next to Ukranian President Poroshenko on his final day of meetings at the United Nations, Trump did not say when he might go to Puerto Rico, but spoke solemnly about the destruction to an island he said had been absolutely obliterated.
Got hit with winds they say, theyve never seen winds like this anywhere, Trump said. Got hit as a 5, category 5 storm, which literally never happens.
Maria actually hit the U.S. Virgin Islands as a Category 5 storm and then reduced to a Category 4 storm when it hit Puerto Rico, knocking out the entire island's power grid and causing extensive damage to property and infrastructure. The president said that Puerto Ricos electrical grid had been totally destroyed and wasnt in good shape to start off with.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/351730-trump-to-visit-hurricane-ravaged-puerto-rico
samnsara
(18,740 posts)no_hypocrisy
(54,560 posts)Puerto Rico is destroyed to where American tourists can't leave the island.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)LonePirate
(14,349 posts)Vinca
(53,548 posts)global1
(26,468 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,485 posts)He's beyond ignorant.
ProudMNDemocrat
(20,672 posts)How many more storms will be Cat 4 or stronger before Nov. 30th? Only Climate Change knows for sure.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,241 posts)And what's with Trump's obsession about the "biggest" everything? Is he trying to justify, ahead of time, his administration's lack of preparedness and/or its ineffectiveness in future disasters, by saying no one could have predicted them?
He's a maniac.
GeorgeGist
(25,570 posts)what Tweeto thinks it means.
SharonClark
(10,497 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)louis-t
(24,582 posts)Sure he'll visit. In a few years when the power is restored. Meanwhile "I like people who have electricity." drumpf.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Skittles
(170,197 posts)WTF
