A Tale of Two Puerto Ricos
The future of Puerto Rico depends on more than simply mending what Maria destroyed. Bloomberg followed an ad hoc crew of volunteers into the hardest hit areas to help those still in need of...
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Months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still in peril.Huge swathes of the island are still without power, running water or access to medical care.Experts estimate that it would take years before these services are restored island-wide.Much of the blame has been placed on FEMA for a slow response in comparison to recentdisasters on the mainland, but recovery from a disaster of this complexity and scale hasproven more challenging than anyone anticipated, and filling the gaps between an over-extendedpublic sector and a suffering populace falls on private citizens.Robert Anderson is a Puerto Rico resident of four years.The eye of the storm came in south of El Yunque, swept up toward San Juan, and out to Arecibo.Everything on the right-hand side is what we call the dir...
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Months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still in peril.Huge swathes of the island are still without power, running water or access to medical care.Experts estimate that it would take years before these services are restored island-wide.Much of the blame has been placed on FEMA for a slow response in comparison to recentdisasters on the mainland, but recovery from a disaster of this complexity and scale hasproven more challenging than anyone anticipated, and filling the gaps between an over-extendedpublic sector and a suffering populace falls on private citizens.Robert Anderson is a Puerto Rico resident of four years.The eye of the storm came in south of El Yunque, swept up toward San Juan, and out to Arecibo.Everything on the right-hand side is what we call the dir...
