Amazon sends support to Puerto Rico

Hurricane Maria is the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico since 1928, it has destroyed 80% of its crop value and downed 80% on the islands power lines which could take 6 months to repair leaving 3.4 million people without power, that is the entire population off Puerto Rico. Numbers in the millions are often hard for the human brain to grasp so to put this into perspective this is approximately the equivalent of the entire city of Los Angeles being without power. On top of the island wide power outage the manufacturing of medication accounts for roughly 90,000 jobs on the island of Puerto Rico, the storm has completely destroyed the medication business there which means a major loss of jobs and revenue for Puerto Rico where 40% of the population already lived in poverty and 10% of the Island before the storms were already unemployed. The island only has $15 million in its emergency fund hurricane irma alone caused $1 billion in damages after hurricane Maria Puerto Rico is $74 billion in debt.https://goo.gl/images/SZBQZW

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