This politics of affective memory has been evident in numerous and diverse actions, most visibly after Maria. Faced with “a flood of images showing unprecedented devastation and suffering,” (Lloréns 2018, 19), including the partial or total damage of over 450,000 dwellings, diasporic Puerto Ricans arrived with blue tarps and other supplies to the island ahead of the federal government (Robles 2018). A network of over 5,000 physicians, researchers and public health professionals also organized “an unprecedented medical airlift through social media and text messaging” (Rafael Guerrero Preston 2018) and they were on the ground six days after the hurricane and remained the main source of supplies for three weeks before federal personnel arrived. US Puerto Ricans similarly mobilized to support the island’s agricultural recovery by sending funds and bringing “electrical generators, hundreds of pounds of seeds, solar equipment, machinery, tools and a significant amount of essential items” (Alvarez Febles 2018).