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UPS restores Puerto Rico delivery routes
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Reuters•October 5, 2017
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UPS restores Puerto Rico delivery routes More
(Reuters) - U.S. package delivery service UPS has re-established shipping to the bulk of Puerto Rico's postal areas, the company said on Thursday, although power outages and blocked roads continue to hamper deliveries.
"We are pleased to begin operations again in Puerto Rico, though the situation is dynamic," UPS Americas Region President Romaine Seguin said in a statement.
The company said freight services were now available to 149 of the island's 176 zip codes and added it would offer a hurricane aid discount to individual customers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ups-resto...--finance.html
Oh good!! Americans of Puerto Rico descent can send food and supplies direct to their relatives!!!
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Top Puerto Rico bank says four months too long to wait for power
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By Hugh Bronstein
,Reuters•October 6, 2017
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Top Puerto Rico bank says four months too long to wait for power More
By Hugh Bronstein
SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Puerto Rico needs to accelerate the timetable for restoring its power grid or else residents will flee for the mainland rather than live without electricity for months, the chairman of the territory's largest bank said on Friday.
In an interview with Reuters on Friday, Banco Popular Chairman Richard Carrion said prolonged outages could shrink the U.S. territory's economy and hurt its banking system. More than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island, most of Puerto Rico is still without electricity.
With about $40 billion in assets, Banco Popular is Puerto Rico's biggest financial institution. Carrion said 85 of the bank's 169 branches were open, and that only about 40 percent of its cash machines were operating.
Puerto Rican authorities have estimated that it will take at least four months to restore the electrical grid, something Carrion says is "not acceptable."
"The economy will suffer, and it may push people who are on the fence to say, 'we're leaving'," he said, potentially pushing the bankrupt territory into even worse financial straits.
About 85 percent of the electricity that was used on the island before Maria is no longer being delivered to customers, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Wide areas are marred by telephone poles snapped in two by the storm, leaving transmission lines in tangled roadside heaps.
Carrion said 90 percent of the island's point of sale terminals, where people buy things with a swipe of their bank card, were still not running. The situation has increased the need for cash, a demand that the U.S. Federal Reserve has met by flying in money.
He said he also worries about the effect Maria will have on Puerto Rico's ability to deliver a debt restructuring that would be acceptable to holders of the territory's defaulted bonds.
Asked when a debt deal might be clinched, Carrion said: "If you would have asked that before Maria, we would have said it could be done before the end of the year."
Now, he said, it's anybody's bet.
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These banks needed to keep a manual system on board for back-up when they lose power. After all, we had banks long before we had power.
They can borrow money from China
No US taxpayer money...why should we borrow money from China and give it to PR
They made this mess...I do not want to pay for it
Just like corrupt Jerry Brown, Detroit MI, Flint MI, St Louis, Chicago, Baltimore...they waste taxpayer money, then want to file bankruptcy and force taxpayers and our Federal dollars to go in a rebuild...HELL NO.
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After 2 weeks without power in Puerto Rico, eating candy for dinner is the new norm
By Elizabeth Hagedorn and Andrew Hall
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When Hurricane Maria made landfall in Naguabo, Puerto Rico, bringing with it sustained winds of up to 150 mph, the zinc roof that Luis Martes had built for his family was ripped to shreds.
"It was like nothing I’ve ever seen in my life," Martes said."The wind was so strong that we couldn’t open the doors. We couldn’t get out."Luis Martes
Martes, the town's former police commissioner, says he and his family of eight are in dire need of food and basic supplies. To run a generator, he's burning through what's left of his savings. Fuel, he says, costs him $20 a day.
“It’s a lot of expenses, and there’s no help. Every day it’s getting worse,” Martes said.
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When President Trump made his first visit to the U.S. territory earlier this week, he praised the both the federal and local response to the Category 4 hurricane that struck Puerto Rico on Sept. 20 as "incredible" and "unbelievable."
“It’s now acknowledged what a great job we’ve done,” Trump said speaking at a briefing at shortly after his arrival.
But outside the capital of San Juan, where distributing aid remains a major challenge, residents described a different set of circumstances.
"Nobody’s come here and or asked us how we are."Lisa Quinones
At a gas station in Ceiba, about two dozen people wait in the sweltering heat for a bag of ice. Lisa Quinones says she’s been in line since 5 a.m.
“We'll wait here until 2, 3, 4, 5 in the afternoon. Nobody tells us if the ice is going to arrive or not.”
Quinones says the government rations she's received today — six bottles of water, two cans of sausages and candy — are not enough to feed her large household.
“Candy, it’s not going to take away the hunger. It’s just going to make us thirsty."
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Puerto Rican National Guard and local officials are working to deliver supplies to remote parts of the island, Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló said.
But residents here say the relief isn't coming fast enough.
"We need tarps for the houses. My [roof] has sunk. It's been 16 days.
We're still waiting for FEMA," Naguabo resident Ricardo Agosta said.
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Compounding the problem is the lack of communication.
Much of Puerto Rico is still completely without power, and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) says it could be several more months before it's fully restored.
On Wednesday, the Department of Defense said only 5.4 percent of citizens have internet and 12.1 percent have cell service. Unable to pick up the phone or read the news, there's simply no way for most in these rural communities to know when a new round of rations arrives in their town.
Martes, like many in Naguabo, feels like he's been left to his own devices while he waits for assistance from the government. Still, he stresses, things could be worse.
"Being alive is the most important thing. The rest we'll figure out," said Martes.
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