The money and resources Puerto Rico was given over the decades should have had a modern road system. A modern electrical grid designed to withstand most hurricanes. A modern water distribution system. They were so spoiled the demanded a reduction of military presence there costing billions and billions of dollars. Give them their independence. Good riddance.'Then why didn't Lush Rimjob just go there instead of the DR?
How come you don't cruise on down there and straighten 'em out, Pogo?
Didn't you hear? You can't get there by truck!
This guy tried to. Then he found the island was surrounded by Big Water. You can see his reaction.
Diga me Tonto --- where is there a "modern electrical grid designed to withstand most hurricanes"? Hm?
I returned to New Orleans five weeks after Katrina -- the first day we were allowed back in --- and there was no electricity anywhere, not even traffic lights. You did whatever work you could by daylight, because after sunset it was totally dark. And if you wanted to do anything like eat beyond the MREs you left town to find it somewhere else.
Yeah but Pogo: Just like Puerto Rico, New Orleans corrupt politicians had squandered/pocketed the infrastructure money there for decades.
Bullshit. The power grid including all those traffic lights was well established by private enterprise (Entergy). It would have (and eventually did) restore that grid to restore its profits but five weeks was not nearly enough.
22Skidoo tried to sell us this shit about "A modern electrical grid designed to withstand most hurricanes". In both the case of PR and NOLA the operative word is "most". Puerto Rico sitting in the Caribbean Sea (which is a "REALLY BIGLY OCEAN") gets way more hurricanes than NOLA does. And in both cases it took The Big One to take it down to that degree --- the rest of the time, again in both cases, you get a temporary inconvenience and then back online. 22Skidoo is hiding behind his imaginary speculation fantasies where nothing Mother Nature does can trump human electrical inventions, because waaaah Rump is my Daddy figure or some shit. Totally ignorant of how the world works and willing to stay ignorant for the sake of his partisan hackery.
As far as the actual NOLA infrastructure the negligent party was established (in court) as the Army Corps of Engineers. The storm itself did relatively little permanent damage; it was the collapse of the levee system that brought most of it. So don't hand me dollops of bullshit about Katrina, whatever mythologies you want to cart around I've already heard them and I know better.