More than a year after Hurricane Maria, the government of Puerto Rico remains unprepared for future natural disasters. Officials there recently admitted that they have not made a new disaster plan. And it is not clear when they will, the Associated Press reports. For months, the government of the U.S. territory said it had completed a disaster plan. It said the plan was being kept secret to protect information about weak infrastructure as well as the private contact details of officials. But Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism recently took legal action to get the government to release the plan. That is what led officials to admit that its plan does not deal with major disaster events like hurricanes and earthquakes. Many Puerto Ricans are angry. They blame the government for the nearly 3,000 deaths linked to Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm that hit the island in September 2017.
Title: Experts: Puerto Rico in Danger Without Disaster Plan
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data-start-time='18833' data-end-time='25833'>And it is not clear when they will, the Associated Press reports.</span> <span data-start-time='25833' data-end-time='34833'>For months, the government of the U.S. territory said it had completed a disaster plan.</span> <span data-start-time='34833' data-end-time='48604'>It said the plan was being kept secret to protect information about weak infrastructure as well as the private contact details of officials.</span> <span data-start-time='48604' data-end-time='59917'>But Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism recently took legal action to get the government to release the plan.</span> <span data-start-time='59917' data-end-time='72833'>That is what led officials to admit that its plan does not deal with major disaster events like hurricanes and earthquakes.</span> <span data-start-time='72833' data-end-time='76458'>Many Puerto Ricans are angry.</span> <span data-start-time='76458' data-end-time='89750'>They blame the government 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