Puerto Rico Braces As Dam Fails

HURRICANE MARIA HAS LEFT COMPLETE AND UTTER
DEVASTATION IN PUERTO RICO AND SO FAR, WE HAVE LEARNED THAT SIX
PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES AS A RESULT.
AUTHORITIES ARE
EXPECTING THE NUMBER TO INCREASE AS THE RECOVERY EFFORTS MOVE
FORWARD.
HOWEVER, THE TESTS HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY A VARIETY OF
ISSUES RELATED TO THE STORM, INCLUDING MUDSLIDES AND SEVERE
FLOODING.
AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN HAMPERED IN THEIR ABILITY TO
ASSESS DAMAGE BECAUSE FOUL WEATHER CONTINUES TO BETTER
PARTS OF THE ISLANDS AS WELL AS THE FACT THAT THE STORM KNOCKED
OUT POWER AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ACROSS THE ISLAND.
THERE ARE ALSO REPORTS THAT THERE IS A BRIDGE THAT IS
EXPECTED TO COLLAPSE AND AS A RESULT, MORE THAN 70,000 PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN EVACUATED FROM THE TOWN THAT THEY LIVE IN, OR THEY
ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EVACUATED.
JUST TO GIVE YOU
SOME MORE INFORMATION, OFFICIALS WARNED RESIDENTS THAT IT COULD
ACTUALLY BE MONTHS BEFORE POWER IS RESTORED.
MONTHS.
UNBELIEVABLE.
THINGS ARE NOT GOOD IN PUERTO RICO.
IT IS REALLY DEVASTATING ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU
CONSIDER, THE STATE THAT PUERTO RICO WAS ALREADY IN WITH
ITS ECONOMIC CRISIS.
AND THE FACT THAT SEVERAL DIFFERENT HURRICANES HAVE HIT
THE CARIBBEAN ALREADY.
LOOK, I WAS JUST IN MIAMI AND HE GOT
GRAZED AND IT WAS STILL A MESS.
PUERTO RICO HAD GOTTEN HIT BY SOME OF THE OTHER STORMS,
BUT THIS ONE HIT IT LONG THE.
IT'S THE FIRST STORM THE FULL AND HIT PUERTO RICO SINCE 1932.
THE WORST STORM IN 80 YEARS TO HIT PUERTO RICO.
I THINK WE
HAVE VIDEO OF WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE.
TO ME THE THINGS HERE
THAT ARE AMAZING, IT LIFTED AND RIPPED THE ROOFS OFF OF NOT JUST
HOMES, BUT SOME GIANT SHOPPING CENTERS.
I WAS TALKING TO MY
FRIENDS IN NEW YORK YOU HAD LIVED THROUGH SUPERSTORM SANDY
AND I WAS JUST 50 MILE-PER-HOUR WINDS AND THEY SAID IT WAS
FEROCIOUS.
AND THESE WERE 160 MILE AN HOUR WINDS.
THIS IS
MOTHER NATURE IS SENDING A MESSAGE, AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE
IT'S INTENDED AND IT'S CONSCIOUS, IT IS JUST, THIS IS
STORMS GETTING MORE SEVERE.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WATER
IS WARMER AND THE WEATHER IS WARMER.
YOU HAVE MORE
PRECIPITATION, MORE SEVERE STORMS AND NOW, IT'S MOVING ON
TO THE BAHAMAS WITH A THINK IT MIGHT DUMP 20 INCHES OF RAIN.
I WANTED TO QUICKLY CLARIFY A STATEMENT THAT I MADE EARLIER,
BECAUSE I MISSPOKE WHEN I SAID THAT A BRIDGE WAS GOING TO
COLLAPSE, IT'S ACTUALLY A DAM THAT'S EXPECTED TO COLLAPSE.
SO
TO BE MORE SPECIFIC, IT'S THE GUAJATACA DAM, AND THEY'RE
EXPECTING IT TO FAIL WHICH IS PROMPTING THESE MASSIVE
EVACUATIONS FROM THE AREA JUST TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE DON'T DIE
FROM EXTREME FLOODING.
IT'S A 345 YARD DAM THAT HOLDS BACK A
MAN-MADE LAKE COVERING ABOUT 2 MI.≤ AND WAS BUILT DECADES AGO.
A BRIDGE COLLAPSING IS DISASTROUS.
A DAM COLLAPSING IS
WORSE.
AWAY WORSE, YEAH.
AND YOU KNOW, THE RUSH LIMBAUGH'S OF THE WORLD, IF IT
DOESN'T HIT HIS EXACT HOUSE AT A HUNDRED AND 65 MILES AN HOUR,
IT'S NOT HAPPENING, WHEN THE PEOPLE IN PUERTO RICO KNOW IT'S
HAPPENING.
I JUST THINK IT'S STRANGE, AGAIN, I HOLD MYSELF RESPONSIBLE
THAT, UNLESS IT HITS THE US MAINLAND, I'M BOTHERED THAT I
DON'T CARE AS MUCH ABOUT, THERE'S AN EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO.
A COLLAPSING SCHOOL.
IT'S NOT THAT I DON'T CARE AS MUCH,BUT
WE'RE CONDITIONED TO CARE ABOUT THE THINGS THAT ARE CLOSEST TO
US.
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, AN EARTHQUAKE HITS IN MEXICO.
WE
LIVE IN LOS ANGELES, WE LIVE ON A FAULT LINE.
IN AN EARTHQUAKE
CAN HIT HERE AND YOU KNOW, ALL OF US.
I INCLUDE MYSELF, WE
HAVE TO THINK MORE GLOBALLY AND PUERTO RICAN'S ARE AMERICANS,
THEY ARE OUR LITERAL AMERICAN BROTHERS AND YOU ARE TALKING
ABOUT MONTHS OF NO ELECTRICITY ON AN ENTIRE ISLAND AND YOU
KNOW, THERE'S GOING TO BE A BREAKDOWN OF SOCIETAL ORDER
THERE SO IF YOU CAN GIVE, AND I HAVE GIVEN, YOU CAN GIVE, GIVE.
THE EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO, I WAS READING THE STORY OF THE
SCHOOLS THAT HAD COLLAPSED AND PARENTS WAITING ALL NIGHT AND
THEY ARE PULLING OUT ONE DEAD KID AFTER ANOTHER AFTER ANOTHER
AND THEN THEY PULLED OUT THREE KIDS WHO WERE ALIVE AND JESUS,
MAN.
IT IS JUST HARROWING, BUT IT IS UNFORTUNATE PART OF
HUMANITY THAT WE CARE MORE AS IT GETS CLOSER TO US.
LOOK AT
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT -
IT RELATES TO WHAT WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT IN YEMEN,
ABOUT WHY THIS IS AN EASIER STORY FOR MOST AMERICANS THAT WE
KILL BETWEEN THREE AND 100 YEMENI CIVILIANS, BECAUSE THEY
ARE SO UNLIKE US, EVEN THOUGH CHORUS, THEY ARE NOT.
IN FACT,
THEY ARE ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE US.
SO YOU HAVE THE THING, MUSLIMS, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
HAVE BEEN DRIVEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY, HUNDREDS OF BUTCHERED,
BURNED ALIVE, IF ISIS HAD DONE THAT TO EUROPEANS OR AMERICANS,
EVEN UCD'S, WE WOULD'VE INVADED AND BOMBS, ETC., BUT WHEN IT
HAPPENS HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD AND A HAPPENS TO PEOPLE WE CAN'T
RELATE TO, THE MEDIA HAS COVERED A LITTLE BIT.
THE US GOVERNMENT
REACTION HAS BEEN A DEAFENING SILENCE.
AND THAT'S BEEN TRUE A COURSE FOR REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRATIC
ADMINISTRATIONS AND OF COURSE, ISIS AND KILLING UCD'S GENERAL,
WE WERE TAUGHT TO CARE MORE ABOUT THAT BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN
CONDITIONED TO BELIEVE THAT ISIS POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT
TO US, RIGHT?
WHEREAS WHAT'S HAPPENED IN TO THE OTHER MUSLIMS DOESN'T AND
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN YEMEN, THE THEORY IS IT'S A WAR ON TERROR
SO WHATEVER'S HAPPENING THAT'S TERRIBLE, BUT IT'S MAKING US
SAFER, AND THAT'S JUST A THING THAT WE THINK AND SAY AND ARE
CONDITIONED TO SAY BECAUSE WE WANT TO NORMALIZE THE MOST
HORRIBLE THINGS IN THE WORLD.
WE HAVE TO AND WE CAN'T REACT TO
THE MEXICAN QUAKE AND THE DEVASTATION PUERTO RICO.
I DO
HAVE THE EMOTIONAL CAPACITY TOO.
I ASSUME MOST PEOPLE DON'T, DO
REALLY FILE AS PROBABLY A LOT OF YOU FELT.
BUT WE JUST, WE DON'T
FEEL IT.
AGAIN, I'M JUST BOTHERED BY IT.
I KNOW WHAT YOU
SAY IS TRUE, THAT AS A GET CLOSER, AS WERE CONDITIONED
MORE, IT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR ME TO STOP THERE.
I KNOW I'M PART OF
IT BECAUSE I'M CONDITIONED THE EXACT SAME WAY, BUT IT
SHOULD NOT BE THAT WAY.
HE SHOULDN'T BE THAT WAY.
AND FINALLY, LOOK GUYS.
YOU SHOULD HELP IN ALL THESE
DIFFERENT SITUATIONS IN ANY WAY THAT YOU CAN BUT THERE IS ALWAYS
NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT AN EARTHQUAKE, SO THERE'S
AFTER-THE-FACT, HELPING, DONATING ETC.
WHAT YOU SHOULD
DEFINITELY DO, BUT BEFORE THE FACT, THERE IS SOMETHING THAT
PEOPLE WOULD SAY WE CAN DO ABOUT TERRORISM, FAIR ENOUGH.
HOPE
YOU HAVE A SMART STRATEGY FOR THAT.
WE HAVEN'T HAD ONE YET,
BUT I HOPE WE HAVE ONE.
BUT THERE'S ALSO SOMETHING WE CAN DO
ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE.
HE MAKES THE STORMS MORE SEVERE.
WE HAVE
TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PLANET DOESN'T HEAT UP BECAUSE AS
DEVASTATING AS ALL OF THESE HURRICANES HITTING ALL AT ONCE
HAS BEEN, IT'S STILL AN APPETIZER FOR WHAT'S GOING TO
COME.
THAT IS NOT A SITUATION THAT IS GOING TO BE PRETTY FOR
ANYBODY AND NO ONE IS GOING TO BE SAFE NO MATTER WHERE
THEY ARE IN THE WORLD.
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