From the information in the linked article, it doesn't sound like this was an improvised or hasty storage arrangement that would just fall through the cracks.
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… He does not know why the supplies were not immediately distributed to people after the earthquakes.
Having obtained the contracts for the warehouses, the head of the national guard told Begnaud that Puerto Rico's emergency management agency had been paying another state agency to rent these spaces for about three years.
In total, the state paid $890,000 itself to stock these facilities with things like milk, generators, baby supplies, and water, Reyes confirmed.
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