1. Rebuilding Puerto Rico after Maria

2. September 20th

3. The True Puerto Rico

5. Electrical System
As of July 3: 2,000 PREPA customers still had no electricity.
$5.2 billion has been invested into PREPA
$1.4 billion for the recovery of the electric grid.
PREPA has about $9.6 billion in debt and is facing bankruptcy.
In Puerto Rico customers pay 21¢ per Kilowatt/hour; in Florida, 8¢ per Kilowatt/hour.
Our government has estimated that $17.6 billion would be needed to rebuild the electric grid.
The federal government has promised approximately $2 billion.

6. Flooding

8. Infrastructure Over 70,000 homes have been destroyed by the Hurricane.
60,000 Puerto Ricans still use blue tarps as roofs.
May: there were over 1,400 poles that were still out of place.
The damage costs to the University of Puerto Rico have ascended to $118 million.
The Island will receive $20 billion from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program (CDBG DR) in three separate stages within the coming months.

9. La Virgencita

10. Toa Baja and Toa Alta

12. Housing
By January: over 1 million applications had been filed with FEMA.
Approximately 61% of them have been denied.
FEMA has denied 79% of the appeals
Main 2 reasons:
not enough damages to be eligible
lack of title deeds.
Over 1,700 Puerto Ricans still spend the night in small hotels throughout the state of Florida.

14. But…
The $35 billion designated are only a third of what the Puerto Rico Government says were the losses caused by the hurricane.
But until the beginnings of June, only close to $3.2 billion had been disbursed. That equates to just over 9%.
FEMA experienced:
personnel shortages
was trapped with critically low supplies
had problems coordinating logistically
and it found itself doing the territorial government's job of responding to the devastation