Hurricane Fiona Hits Puerto Rico! 🇵🇷🇺🇸

Another hurricane hits Puerto Rico.

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The far right would love to say that people concerned are alarmists. The 2022 hurricane season is not at its peak but already five named storms and it's been fairly light. However, the risk of a deadly storm is still happening and human lives are at risk if they choose to protect property than life.

The U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico is once again hit by a devastating hurricane. The cyclone has put the island of 3.5 million on complete blackout. 

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and Resident Commissioner, Rep. Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR) are aware of the crisis.

Biden is over in the United Kingdom to mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. He had declared a state of emergency for the island and said that FEMA is on standby. 

Fiona made landfall Sunday in the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico at a time when the entire island had lost power as it got battered nearly five years to the day after blockbuster Hurricane Maria ravaged the U.S. territory.

Fiona, a Category 1 storm, reached Puerto Rico at 3:20 p.m. ET bringing maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. The system is expected to unleash life-threatening rainfall and dangerous mudslides, forecasters said. "Catastrophic flooding" was likely across Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, according to the hurricane center.

Rough night ahead.

“It’s time to take action and be concerned,” Nino Correa, Puerto Rico’s emergency management commissioner, said before landfall. 

Luma, the company that operates power transmission and distribution, said fierce winds disrupted transmission lines, leading to “a blackout on all the island.”

Puerto Ricans know how life was after Hurricane Maria damaged the semi-autonomous U.S. territory.

Washed Up 45 threw paper towels and threatened to pull funding from FEMA. He even went as far to call for foreign governments to take care of the territory and he wanted to the U.S. take control of Greenland, a Danish crown self-autonomous island. He even called the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the president.

And these right wing idiots are concerned about Biden's health.

The island is debating over becoming a U.S. State, free association or independence.

Republicans oppose statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. They also oppose voting rights for Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 

The way the U.S. government handled Maria was just as bad as Hurricane Katrina. The 2005 storm ravaged through New Orleans, Biloxi and Gulfport. That killed over 3,000 Americans.

George W. Bush was incomtemptant. The Republicans placed the blame on the Democratic governor and the Democratic mayor for the failures despite the U.S. Army of Corp Engineers warned that the Mississippi River and levies that surround the city have been failing since 2000.

Hurricane Maria killed over 1,000 people in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Biden also granted federal assistance to American Samoa during a tsunami. FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the territory of American Samoa to supplement territorial and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by high surf, high winds and flooding July 12-15, 2022.

Public assistance federal funding is available to the territory, eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance.

Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures throughout the territory.