"When we can get outside, we will find our island destroyed," Abner Gómez of the emergency management agency said at a news conference Wednesday. "The information we received is not encouraging. It's a system that has destroyed everything it has had in its wake."

This is the island that said "despite our economic problems, we found 15 million for our disaster fund" before Irma went by. I don't even know if 15 million is enough to get the port or airport back to capacity if it's damaged.

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Dominica is for all intents and purposes, dead

Puerto Rico is looking at $75 Billion, minimal IMO, to get back to a functional society. The most wonderful thing to come out of these storms is the very low fatality count.


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