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mopinko

(70,022 posts) Tue Sep 19, 2017, 12:01 PM Sep 2017

what is being done to evacuate puerto rico? [View all]

the military should be there, scooping up anyone they can.
we should commandeer cruise ships.

especially those poor folks that fled there after irma. can you imagine the trauma? i cant.

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what is being done to evacuate puerto rico? [View all] mopinko Sep 2017 OP

They are refusing to evacuate per another thread that I cannot find Not Ruth Sep 2017 #1

I have been told by a Puerto Rican friend... dubyadiprecession Sep 2017 #52

I know 3 people who are Puerto Ricans Not Ruth Sep 2017 #58

Not likely... Wounded Bear Sep 2017 #2

Have you seen the Caribbean sea this monring malaise Sep 2017 #3

so send in the navy. mopinko Sep 2017 #9

Naval ships are not safe in those storms, either obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #45

They have 500 shelters open. B2G Sep 2017 #4

With a population of 3.4 million DesertRat Sep 2017 #5

i'm sure not all of them would. mopinko Sep 2017 #10

trump can't get high enough ratings ....so probably little is being done spanone Sep 2017 #6

Cruise ships are really lousy for evacuating people inland Brother Buzz Sep 2017 #7

Where do you think these ships should be taking evacuees? onenote Sep 2017 #8

Well Maria hits tomorrow and Cruise ships only go about 30 knots. JoeStuckInOH Sep 2017 #11

Sadly, most Americans don't know that Puerto Ricans or citizens of Virgin Islands are also Americans clutterbox1830 Sep 2017 #12

Well you have a President who clearly doesn't know that Hawaii malaise Sep 2017 #29

also trump thinks climate change is a hoax bdamomma Sep 2017 #33

His presidency is a hoax malaise Sep 2017 #34

Being born and raised in Hawaii atreides1 Sep 2017 #35

So imagine Puerto Rico and the US Virgin islands which malaise Sep 2017 #43

Hell, I had a coworker (a college grad, no less) who didn't know New Mexico was Nay Sep 2017 #78

You want to see a greytdemocrat Sep 2017 #13

Too late... sarisataka Sep 2017 #14

Large-scale evacuations are disastrous events in themselves, Mopinko. Hortensis Sep 2017 #15

ok, i only know what the media says, and that could well be full of it, but mopinko Sep 2017 #19

Let's face it, the media search out problems and create them out of nothing Hortensis Sep 2017 #21

yeah, i know. why i qualified what i said, but mopinko Sep 2017 #22

The situation with Harvey was different TexasBushwhacker Sep 2017 #26

Very good points. The media train us to expect the worst of "the system" Hortensis Sep 2017 #73

The real disaster will be in the Virgin Islands malaise Sep 2017 #30

yeah, they should have been rescued a couple days ago. mopinko Sep 2017 #31

Our government got a lot of our people out of St Martin via Antigua malaise Sep 2017 #32

Because SOFL isn't Houston obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #46

Evacuation was horrific on the roads from Florida most gas stations were out of gas FloridaBlues Sep 2017 #51

Thanks for sharing some reality! COLGATE4 Sep 2017 #53

Thank you. cwydro Sep 2017 #71

I respect the passion... GulfCoast66 Sep 2017 #16

i have peeps in fla, and i felt the same way. but mopinko Sep 2017 #18

Sure. Same as the keys GulfCoast66 Sep 2017 #20

ok, i am just asking where the option to evacuate is. mopinko Sep 2017 #23

The option is 'Head for the Hills, Brother' Brother Buzz Sep 2017 #24

i know how many people are there, i am not suggesting that they all leave mopinko Sep 2017 #17

Again, how are you going to control an evacuation situation onenote Sep 2017 #25

This is like FB posts I kept getting before Irma obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #41

They were no real evacuations in Florida obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #40

I think Houston did pretty damn well, all things considered. Mariana Sep 2017 #55

Even if ships and planes were available, PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #27

again. i have said over and over that i dont think every single person mopinko Sep 2017 #28

In which case you are simply hoping PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #48

tru dat. mopinko Sep 2017 #50

Slow moving? PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #69

Maria was a fast developing storm onenote Sep 2017 #68

Naval ships aren't configured for hundreds of thousands of passengers. And they've been known to WinkyDink Sep 2017 #64

Yup, it is impossible obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #37

just sayin that people who dont want to shelter in place mopinko Sep 2017 #57

It is impossible to evacuate people like that obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #36

Yep. Magical thinking at it's finest. nt B2G Sep 2017 #38

yeah, for the umpeenth time, i am not suggesting evacuating all. mopinko Sep 2017 #39

It is their home obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #44

i get that, but at the same time, back to my main point mopinko Sep 2017 #56

Here's a map. Again, where is this evacuation flotilla coming from and where is it going? onenote Sep 2017 #47

Nobody is safe in a Cat 5 hurricane! MoonRiver Sep 2017 #42

+1 FLPanhandle Sep 2017 #49

i'm not claiming expertise, nor expressing an opinion about whether people should mopinko Sep 2017 #60

This! TexasBushwhacker Sep 2017 #75

God be with them all down there tonight. roamer65 Sep 2017 #54

Mother nature, natural selection obliviously Sep 2017 #59

that's a pretty sad statement mopinko Sep 2017 #61

It's not what you hear in sunday school. obliviously Sep 2017 #62

no, the nuns taught me mopinko Sep 2017 #63

We're on the Earth like ticks on a dog obliviously Sep 2017 #66

Irrelevance is often simplistic petulance. LanternWaste Sep 2017 #72

Here's the bottom line: Not every natural catastrophe can be avoided. WinkyDink Sep 2017 #65

who said that? mopinko Sep 2017 #67

Okay, substitute "minimizing the impact." "We better get better at" is a wish, a WinkyDink Sep 2017 #74

Needd some numbers whistler162 Sep 2017 #70

Good thing climate change isnt real, otherwise we might be able to do something Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #76

and cost money they already have plans for. mopinko Sep 2017 #77

We need George Soros and other billionaires to pay for their relocation to the US Fluke a Snooker Sep 2017 #79