Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló, has asked people abroad worrying about their families to remain calm and be patient as the island continues to confront the crisis that hurricane maria has left them in,but nearly a week after the storm hit, many Puerto Ricans on the mainland are still struggling to reach their relatives, often resorting to extreme measures and relying on a combination of strangers and technology to help get messages to family members. Laura Virella, from San Juan who is based part-time in New York, has been helping people get in touch with relatives. On Tuesday morning, she had yet to speak directly to her parents or her 98-year-old grandmother, who were still on the island. She sent dozens of messages to strangers, searching for a way to make contact. Eventually, she messaged someone she had found through a Facebook group had a relative near where her family was in Trujillo Alto, just southeast of San Juan. The stranger was able to film a video of Virella’s mother, who is 65, though it took an additional 12 hours to upload the clip. Finally, on Saturday, she had learned that her family was safe.“I’m one of the super extremely lucky ones,” she said. “That is not the norm. There are people who have lost absolutely everything. Their families are in shelters and they don’t know which shelters they’re in.”
FEEDBACK: Given the detrimental state that our fellow Americans over seas are in I think that this is a beautiful and compassionate thing for the citizens of Puerto Rico to do for each other . If we as the 50 states could learn to be a little more like them i think we'd be a lot better off then we are currently.
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