Serowbot wrote on 09/15/18 at 07:05:58:The 64 deaths during the storm probably weren't preventable...
The thousands afterward,...
Maybe. If the storm had hit Miami, Daytona Beach, or, if you want to toss an island in there, Hawaii. But this storm hit Puerto Rico.
Quite often natural catastrophes in third world, Latin American countries produce staggering numbers of deaths, property damage, and infrastructure devastation far greater that the immediate effects of the event. And the repairs take years, if they are accomplished at all. Despite the fact that PR is a US territory, and the people are legally US citizens, it is still essentially a third world Latin American country with the culture of government corruption and incompetence that that implies. I don't understand why the mess down there surprises anyone.
i really don't blame Trump for taking exception to the implication that all those dead folks - if in fact the number is accurate - are somehow dead because of HIS incompetence.