Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷 still waiting for aid weeks after Maria's devastation

After a week of misery, millions of Puerto Ricans are still suffering in primitive conditions without power, water or enough fuel.

About 97% of the island's 3.4 million residents are still in the dark one week after Hurricane Maria slammed into the Puerto Rico. And there's nowhere enough food to go around.

Some help is on the way. On Wednesday, a plane carrying 3,500 pounds of water, Army meals ready-to-eat, diapers and other supplies will head from Miami to Puerto Rico, said Rob Brisley, spokesman with US Customs and Border Protection.

The plane, which usually carries out intelligence missions, will travel back to the United States with 28 family members of federal employees, he said.

"We are getting help from the federal government, but this is an unprecedented set of circumstances," Governor Rosselló said Wednesday.

"We want to make sure that we recognize that a lot of resources are coming in. They are coming in by air or by boats. But they are starting to execute." 
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands have seen fewer personnel since Hurricane Maria hit than Texas and Florida did during recent hurricanes in those states.

In a tweet Monday, FEMA said more than 10,000 federal staff members were on the ground in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands assisting search-and-rescue and recovery efforts.

UCJ, UNILORIN.