vast majority, vast percentage of my district is probably still in the dark, is instead of repair that you would have a sometimes after normal store things to be knocked or transformers, there is so much damage, excessive amount of water from the surge, that you are talking about replacement of major components. transformers, major pieces of our utility system here, just for the power alone. not to mention all the other damage that we have and has impacted our community here. just to be clear. it wasn t a situation in puerto rico where it was in bad shape before the hurricane arrived. what was a like around your area wasn t easily in good shape? it was okay but you can only do so much to protect yourself from that type of seawater hit.
and agreement on the rebuild of the hospital. we have been using temporary shelters for our children, who have been not only dealing with hurricanes five years ago but covid, that have kept them out of schools. we are seeing tremendous issues with them both socially and academically. i just have to give kudos to the teachers and to the parents and to the kids who have done a tremendous job during that time. we are seeing road projects being rebuilt. we re supposed to rebuild our entire utility system. virgin islanders were out of power, for some, up to six months. unfortunately so much of that has not taken place as yet. but as you know, after katrina, ten years later, some of those projects are still in the works. we are hoping that we are not going to be that case, that we are going to be able to jump-start this and to really see some tremendous growth. i, unfortunately, many of us, don t feel it has gone as quickly as we would like, but i