{"id":4371,"date":"2018-09-20T03:15:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T11:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.caionline.org\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2018-09-20T03:15:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T11:15:31","slug":"how-one-cai-member-helped-clients-during-and-after-hurricane-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/how-one-cai-member-helped-clients-during-and-after-hurricane-maria\/","title":{"rendered":"How one CAI member helped clients during and after Hurricane Maria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_0    et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0 et_pb_bg_layout_light  et_pb_text_align_left\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p><em>San Juan, Puerto Rico: A work crew clears brush created by Hurricane Maria from a city park more than three months after the storm struck.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 5 storm on Sept. 20, 2017, bringing devastating winds and flooding and leaving much of the island in the dark. More than 70,000 homes were destroyed and the official damage tally in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands totaled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/weather\/hurricane\/article208350879.html\">$90 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The effects continue to linger on the island one year later. Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority reported last month that power has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/14\/us\/puerto-rico-power-restored\/index.html\">restored<\/a>, though some residents deny that claim and say they must still rely on generators.<\/p>\n<p>CAI member Robert MacKay, president of community management software company <a href=\"http:\/\/managemynest.net\/CorpMMN.asp\">Manage My Nest<\/a>, has helped his clients in Puerto Rico communicate with one another during and after Maria.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which is headquartered in San Juan, did whatever it could on behalf of clients. This included using the platform to send out communications on clients\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 behalves while landlines were down, working with suppliers to send necessary resources, facilitating and executing email blasts, and more. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There was no set menu\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust whatever we could do to help,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says MacKay.<\/p>\n<p>One community manager at a high-rise condominium used the platform at 6:00 a.m. during the hurricane to advise residents to stay away from windows and remain in hallways, he recalls. Nearly an hour later, they were able to alert residents that the windows were breaking and to go to stairwells.<\/p>\n<p>MacKay is confident that the island will return to normal despite the widespread devastation. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The people of Puerto Rico represent a resilient culture. You could see people outside working together with FEMA to salvage what they could. People rationed diesel fuel with generators between communities. Residents in the community used a shovel and a wheelbarrow to clean the beach. It was amazing to see. They love their island,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says MacKay.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <!-- .et_pb_text -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> <!-- .et_pb_column --><\/p><\/div>\n<p> <!-- .et_pb_row --><\/p><\/div>\n<p> <!-- .et_pb_section --><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.caionline.org\/how-one-cai-member-helped-clients-during-and-after-hurricane-maria\/\">How one CAI member helped clients during and after Hurricane Maria<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.caionline.org\/\">Ungated: Community Associations Institute Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.caionline.org\/how-one-cai-member-helped-clients-during-and-after-hurricane-maria\/\">How one CAI member helped clients during and after Hurricane Maria<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.caionline.org\/\">Ungated: Community Associations Institute Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[264,272,275,417,567,871],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}