I wouldn't trust brown paper wrap right now, not down there. Very easy to peek inside, either intentionally or just through an accidental tear in the paper, and theft is running high. That generator might never make it. I'd get a plain brown box and just put the generator box into it.

USPS insurance is questionable. Filing claims is tough. your call there.

Where would I get a box that size?

Hey tw... you should ship it to the store... duh... easy as pie. :)

Frankensteined an 18X18X24 Walmart box. Looks ghetto.

By frankensteined I don’t mean I grabbed its teets while it slept.

Ships tomorrow. USPS to her P.O. box. Will insure and track.

Thanks for all the input. I prolly should have just shipped to store though.

#49 TW'S post..

Labeled it "bio hazard victors hep c pee"..

^ I *****IN lost it !!

It's on it's way. Expected delivery Friday. $121 to ship plus $10 to insure. We will find out.

Now I've got a whole table of first aid supplies, wet wipes, clorox wipes, food, batteries, glenmorangie airplane bottles etc to pack and send.

We haven't been able to talk to her due to bad cell coverage but texts can slip out. I guess it's worse than we are hearing. That jives with my commission corps buddy who just got back from there.

Hope USPS comes through.

Any word on safe drinking water there Jones. I was wondering if something like Aquatabs for water purification would be needed or used?

In the end I think the locals will be largely driven out and the big dollar resorts will take over the island.

I had seen that the water they are scrounging up could be unsafe. I was thinking that the tablet water purifiers would come in handy. Thoughts?

I hate to tell you this, Drafter, but that rain forest is gone. I have a co-worker from Puerto Rico and he went back a couple of weeks after the storm to help his family as much as he could. When he came back I, of course, asked him how bad was it. He showed me several pictures of the devastation, including a home that he owned that had been his Grandmother's and he was going to retire to one day. It was gone. He was fine until he showed me pictures of the PR Rain Forest. Then he broke down as it is/was a tremendous source of pride for the island. It was just f*cking gone. Looked like an alien landscape. Tee is right. The mainland American public is not being told the truth about how bad it is down there or we have simply moved on. It's not political. It's not "Trump's Fault". It just is and it's kinda shameful that the we are allowing AMERICAN CITIZENS to continue to struggle as much as they are.

Someone I really respect repeated the trump line the other night though. The one about they expect us to do everything and won’t do anything for themselves. Lazy bassards.

It wasn’t a contentious conversation at all, we are friends. When I asked for details on what they should be doing to show they are doing something for themselves he didn’t really have anything. Just the phrase.

They are a complete disaster right now. They have no resources or means. We could argue about things before the storms (2 hurricanes in a row) but now there’s not much to argue about.

And make no mistake as someone who had to settle taxes, title, and sell land there I know how absurd and even corrupt their government can be. Their debt is outrageous. I don’t defend that. But Americans are dying. We will soon start to see how this fact is being hidden.

I know I’m biased but the whole thing makes me nauseous. And I do beleive this will end up with wealthy folks owning a resort island.

I'm gonna build a casino..

Damn....

I got some extra blue ones...

^ I can't answer all of it and would guess it's a mix. In their case they rent a house. The landlord is waiving rent in order to have them stay there, and protect the house. He's a construction/handy man sort so the landlord is getting a presence at the house (which is important) and someone taking care and repairing things.

Mr Jones - a lot of financial institutions will implement a program to delay repayment until the situation normalizes. It’s not in their best interest to foreclose or repossess in those situations and it’s a great way to alienate customers. I know the bank I worked for when Katrina came through was good to those folks during that time, although there were some execs that opposed that policy.

TW :

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Yes.. and a free 50lb bag of puppy-dog foods...

Of that I have no doubt. There are several financial institutions that focus on servicing the Caribbean. I’m quite sure their business models are quite different. I would hope PR and the USVI would be better, but there’s a reason not many of them have a presence on the mainland.

#86 & 87

LOL !!!
HA !!!

They couldn’t get to the post office before it closed. Hopefully today.

You can order that from Venezuela...

You finally got your Cleveland steamer?

They are currently trying to read the directions in the dark.