Hurricane response - how can we know how FEMA is doing, &other efforts?

September 23, 2017 11:03 AM

Is there a clearinghouse site for covering Caribbean or other hurricane relief efforts, reports from hurricane-hit areas other than St. John, ways to help that actually do help, ways to hold organizations' feet to the fire if that is called for, how to rebuild in preparation for future 'weather events', etc?

I have very little sense of how well people of Puerto Rico or elsewhere in the Caribbean are doing, post-hurricane. And when I went to the FEMA site, I did not see much if any public-facing status information.

posted by Baeria to Law & Government (1 answer total)

Hmm. The information I'm getting is from living in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, with a roommate who has friends in the USVI. So what I get is anecdotal. And it sounds like things are still not good. The one site I'm aware of is a "how to help" Google doc that's been handed around; some of the pages here are links to orgs working on things, but the caveat with those is that of course some of them will be manipulating their depiction of what's going on, for better or worse, in order to maintain funding.

A clearinghouse site would be awesome; it's one of so many kinds of news sites I wish existed (media monopoly reportage? labor issues clearinghouse on food and clothing stores? block-by-block info on NYC community issues? farewell, DNAInfo, you will be missed.) Sadly, I don't know of anything like it.
posted by gusandrews at 12:05 PM on November 12, 2017