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| Subject: It's not a bug, it's a feature: Puerto Ricans Unable to Reach Earthquake Shelters Say They’re Getting ‘No Help from Government’ Mon Jan 13, 2020 3:58 am | |
| Families displaced by an unrelenting streak of earthquakes are living in parks.
PONCE, PUERTO RICO—Squinting at the blistering sun, Jeanette Fontánez looks overheated and exasperated. “We can’t live in our houses because they’re cracked,” she tells The Daily Beast. “We need soap, mattresses, tents, water, supplies—a little bit of everything, because there’s a lot of us here.” But as of Saturday afternoon, government officials and agencies had yet to arrive to where the 49-year-old Fontánez has sought refuge: In a public park within walking distance from her home, which she says is unsafe to be inside. “We’ve been here since Tuesday,” says Fontánez, who was there with her 9-year-old daughter. Families are spread throughout the park, some set up near parked cars, other stationed under tarps.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/puerto-ricans-unable-to-reach-earthquake-shelters-say-theyre-getting-no-help-from-government
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