09-30-2017 02:04 PM
I went to the homepage because I thought that there had been a link for previous hurricanes for collecting donations. Don't see anything for Puerto Rico. Hmm, what?
Fortunately it was not hard to do a web search and get lists of charities to donate to. For each hurricane I have selected a different agency. Drop in the bucket I guess.
09-30-2017 02:15 PM - edited 09-30-2017 02:15 PM
It's starting to look more and more like Katrina, except even more people affected, and with even worse hair-raising stories.
Relatives who walked an hour to get to a working cell phone tower just to check in with mainland famly. A niece who runs human resources for the US branch of a large bank has only heard from 80% of her PR staff. A daughter who works as a teacher in Massachusetts describes how the city of Holyoke, MA, with a school population that's already 80% Puerto RIcan, is preparing for an influx of students with little or no English skills and also no school records.
09-30-2017 02:21 PM
I was thinking recently that thanks to Maria, The Virgin Islands can now be renamed The Islands, because they got totally...
09-30-2017 02:25 PM - edited 09-30-2017 02:27 PM