Volunteer Pilots Swoop Into Puerto Rico With Supplies and Leave With Survivors

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32. Did you think this through?

It was a Cat 5 storm, that means the winds were powerful enough lift off sections of the roadways -- did you miss those photos? -- and flooding washed out more roads, then there were mudslides and boulders that blocked more roads.

Do people on your street have heavy equipment and skills to operate those machines? Does everyone have axes and chainsaws? There's no trucks to haul off the debris, and no gas or diesel fuel to run those machines. There is no power and no communications, so how do you expect people to contact some group in the states that offers planes to assist disaster victims? While these pilots are willing to land their own planes at an airport, it takes a different type of plane that is capable of landing in the rough, even if a safe dirt strip could be cleared.

Rather than blame the victims, let's focus on the real problem, the lackluster federal response from the incompetent Trump administration, yeah?