Todo bien.”

Electricity?

So what can we do to help? The immediate need, Buchen says, is money for the organizations that are doing the work: clearing streets, getting drinkable water to the people, providing shelter. (There, on the ground, he likes Radio Vieques and Taller Salud.)

(On September 28, after tweeting that Puerto Ricans “want everything done for them,” President Donald Trump temporarily lifted a long-standing federal law that had interfered with the island’s trade, driven up the cost of living, and was said to be slowing the arrival of supplies after Maria. The Jones Act requires that ships carrying goods between American ports must be U.S. built and staffed; the temporary suspension expired on October 8.)