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Your comment is so true it hurts. I’m a puerto rican who lived through Hurricane Maria in the island in 2017. The hurricane took out our entire power grid and m
by cssanchez 3y ago
Your comment is so true it hurts. I’m a puerto rican who lived through Hurricane Maria in the island in 2017. The hurricane took out our entire power grid and multiple cell towers for months. After the hurricane the only form of communication in my area was a single radio station and my family could only listen using car radios. Cell service took months to restore in my area. I just remember hearing that lonely radio host’s voice every day for over a week with devastation in his voice as he shared the news coming in of the disaster.
For us, the hurricane was literally an apocalyptic event and I can’t imagine trying to keep my sanity if we didn’t have radios or any communication. I can’t imagine anywhere in the US going through that either.
- sergiomattei 3y agoAs a fellow Puerto Rican who also endured this, wholeheartedly agree In a total disaster, the only thing barely working is AM radio. I remember even during the hurricane listening to the only radio station available in AM. Their broadcast room was flooding, they were running on a generator and they were still broadcasting and reporting what was going on. Thinking about it today, listening to that radio station was terrifying. I remember they were taking calls from people almost about to drown from flooding, clamoring for any sort of emergency response… which was unlikely to arrive. It was an apocalyptic moment.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoTo your last comment. I’m sorry this happened. You are part of the US. It was a tragedy upon a tragedy to watch how the nation let you down.