But you can send several planes with the 40,000 lbs each in advance of the 40,000 tons to at least get the relief effort started. The main airport there was operational.
Alternatively, you can toss rolls of paper towels into the crowd. He actually held up a flashlight and said, "You don't need these anymore".
FEMA removed the figures for customers with electricity and customers with drinking water from their website, until the media caught it and started making a fuss about the fact that they were hiding the bad stuff. As of today, less than 7% of customers have electricity and about 47% have drinking water. Flashlights and batteries are still needed by most of the population.
A news crew went to a village about an hour outside of San Juan today, and the villagers were overcome with emotion to see them. They have not seen anyone from FEMA yet, don't have the gasoline they need to make the trip to San Juan to get help and have no way of communicating because the cell towers are down. An hour outside of San Juan, and no relief. Heckuva a job, Brownie.
Interesting factoids I saw today:
# of Puerto Ricans who are expected to relocate to Florida: 100,000
# of votes Trump won by in Florida: 120,000
# of Electoral votes for Florida: 29
# of combined votes in the three states that carried Trump through the Electoral College: 70,000
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