Hope your family is doing okay.

Still havent been able to reach them

Major dam failure in NW pr

Category 5 hurricanes have hit 6 land areas dead-on in 2017, more than ever before. A quarter of all cat 5's recorded since 1851 to hit land have hit this year.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital...m=.40b821b8bf9b

Finally spoke to my mother today

Finally spoke to my mother today

 

Good to hear. Hope they are ok.

Almost 3.5 million Americans are without power. God, I hope we help them with everything we can.

List of trusted organizations to help Puerto Rico here

http://www.losambulantes.com/help-puerto-rico/

 

Hope your family is safe Josh. Heartbreaking too see some of the areas I've been look devastated, can only imagine how hard it is with friends and family still there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/hot...m=.f75a5fcdb6fe

 

Hard to fight back emotions reading this. Donated today but with the airports and ports destroyed this seems terribly bad and Unlikely to have a quick turnaround.

NBC Nightly News‏Verified account @NBCNightlyNews 1h1 hour ago JUST IN: USNS Comfort hospital ship is being dispatched to Puerto Rico disaster, FEMA Admin. Long says at the White House.

 

 

Pitbull and Marc Cuban are both loaning their private planes to help shuttle people and supplies to and from Puerto Rico.

Sure, why not

 

Tropical Storm Nate expected to form and may strike U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane Sunday

Sure, why not

 

Tropical Storm Nate expected to form and may strike U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane Sunday

Am I allowed to be a little relieved that the Euro model is taking it farther east and pushing us out of the cone here in Texas?

Heads up my family is ok. Comunication is gotten better. Its been a slow road. My mother tells me it could pass for a war zone. Then the pres made a total arse of himself yesterday down there.. (sorry hope no one is offended but its true)

What area is your family in? Glad to hear they're safe.

Mother is on the north side. Manati were carlos beltran is from. My mother lives in his old neighborhood. My dad lives on the west side.

So half of California exploded yesterday. The fire hit one community overnight while people were sleeping and so far that one is thought to have killed seven people.

New Harvard study estimates over 4000 people died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria

https://www.washingtonpost.com/1a82503a-6070-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a15ca447627c

 

Quote

 

CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO — At least 4,645 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria and its devastation across Puerto Rico last year, according to a new Harvard study released Tuesday, an estimate that far exceeds the official government death toll, which stands at 64.

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that health care disruption for the elderly and the loss of basic utility services for the chronically ill had significant impacts across the U.S. territory, which was thrown into chaos after the September hurricane wiped out the electrical grid and had widespread impacts on infrastructure. Some communities were entirely cut off for weeks amid road closures and communications failures.

Researchers in the United States and Puerto Rico, led by scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, calculated the number of deaths by surveying nearly 3,300 randomly chosen households across the island and comparing the estimated post-hurricane death rate to the mortality rate for the year before. Their surveys indicated that the mortality rate was 14.3 deaths per 1,000 residents from Sept. 20 through Dec. 31, a 62 percent increase in the mortality rate compared to 2016, or 4,645 “excess deaths.”

 

 

I hear there is cheap real estate available in Ellicott City, MD.  Those flood waters are crazy to watch and twice in 3 years.  Amazing that only one person is missing, seeing those videos you would think that toll would be much worse.