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5. Yep... and the video post to FB of another

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #4)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 12:58 PM

Sep 2017

Last edited Wed Sep 13, 2017, 07:51 PM - Edit history (1)

She was able to get a ticket on ship to PR the next day (and was thus on the manifest) and caught a flight back home.

This really falls under "first world problems". About 40,000 people on the island aren't going anywhere... while she posts FB videos complaining about the spotty internet access during the storm and that she can't leave when she wants to.

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A Marriott rescue ship left stranded tourists behind because they weren't guests of the hotel [View all] Eugene Sep 2017 OP

Just horrible mainstreetonce Sep 2017 #1

This looks like bad reporting with a buried lede FBaggins Sep 2017 #2

And largely based on this moron's account jberryhill Sep 2017 #4

Yep... and the video post to FB of another FBaggins Sep 2017 #5

Local authorities made that decision, not Marriott Cicada Sep 2017 #3

Marriott flat out lied! procon Sep 2017 #6

None of that fits the story FBaggins Sep 2017 #7

Disgraceful! Dem_4_Life Sep 2017 #8