You walk down the street and you say 'how are you doing?' and everyone says 'todo bien,' and todo bien means 'I don't have any electricity, but I have a house and my family is safe and I have access to water. Everyone says 'yeah, I'm fine - you know, we're screwed, but we're fine.'

Our Man in San Juan, Dave Buchen checks in from post-Hurricane Irma Puerto Rico to let us know he's doing fine - and that doing fine right now means means being alive with your family, eating peanut butter sandwiches in the dark with the rest of the island, united by a natural disaster, and against the man-made financial ones to come.

Dave recommends donating to the Hurricane Maria Community Relief & Recovery Fund, if you can help out.

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Dave Buchen

Dave Buchen has been living in Puerto Rico since the previous century. There he home-schools his two kids and makes theater with Theater Oobleck and El Teatro Barbaro, and plays music with La Banda Municipal de Makula Barun.

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