and forcing desperate decision making. do you burn precious fuel searching for supplies or stay put and pray for help? lydia has two cars with no gas, two grandkids to keep alive on a ration of crackers with no way to reach the highway pipe they drink rain water. no water, no food she tells me. it s nobody s fault. it s the weather. you have to go on. my heart breaks for you. what worries me the most is my family doesn t know how we re doing, she says. we don t have cell phone connection. reporter: on a scale before it one to ten, ten being horrible, desperate, where are you? eight, yes. eight and getting better, the young mayor tells me. if the gasoline arrives it will help us because people are starting to get desperate. gas more precious than water up
happen here. while safe from coastal storm surges, maria brought hellish mudslides, cutting off families for days and forcing desperate decision making. do you burn precious fuel searching for supplies or stay put and pray for help? lydia has two cars with no gas, two grandkids to keep alive on a ration of crackers with no way to reach that highway pipe, they drink rain water. no water, no food, she tells me. it s nobody s fault. it s the weather. you have to go on. my heart breaks for you. what s worse, my family doesn t know how we re doing, she says. we don t have cell phone connection. on a scale of being 1 to 10, 10 herbal desperate, how are you? an eight. eight and getting better, the young mayor tells me.
no water, no food she tells me. it s nobody s fault. it s the weather. you have to go on. my heart breaks for you. what worries me the most is my family doesn t know how we re doing, she says. we don t have cell phone connection. on a scale before it one to ten, ten being horrible, desperate, where are you? eight, yes. eight reporter: and getting better, the young mayor tells me. if the gasoline arrives it will help us because people are starting to get desperate. gas more precious than water up here. national guard vehicles can t move. ambulances sit idle. the hospital was one day s worth of generator fuel left and one volunteer doctor because the rest of the staff has no way to get to work. are people starting to turn on each other?
towns like this, cutting off families for days, forcing desperate decision-making, do you burn fuel searching for supplies or stay put and pray for help? lydia has two cars with no gas, two grandkids to keep alive on a rax of crackers. with no way to reach that highway pipe, they drink rain water. no water, no food, she tells me. it s nobody s fault. it s the weather. you have to go on. the anxiety. ki tell, my heart breaks for you. what worries me the most is my family doesn t know how we are doing. we don t have cell phone connection. on a scale of one to ten, ten being horrible, desperate, where are you? eight. you are an eight? eight. yes, eight getting better. eight and getting better the young mayor tells me. if the gasoline arrives, it will fix our problems, people are starting to get desperate. gas is more precious than water
the residents are facing. reporter: this part of the world needs is to be reconnected with our portion of the world. they need information and they need resources. just as we re about to leave, i ran in to the congresswoman saying to me she had calls with speaker ryan and speaker pelosi and a concern is fair share when the relief comes in for harvey and irma and they need it. near term what i do do they need? resources, tarps, food, water. long term, it is so different from here than the continental united states. the fact that across the virgin islands there s practically no wi-fi connections. practically no cell phone connection. it s essential to make that happen. you know, when we were with digitell they were telling us the biggest change for economic impact improvement in far reaches of the world is getting that connectivity and they need it. the biggest concern and worry