In Puerto Rico

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona at the Port of Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on October 3, 2022.Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP (Getty Images)President Joe Biden visited Puerto Rico on Monday to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Fiona last month. During a speech in the city of Ponce, Biden promised an additional $60 million in funding to help the island “rebuild it all,” on top of billions of dollars already set aside for the island’s recovery from hurricanes Irma and Maria. “Rebuild it…

View of a downed electricity pole on September 20, 2022 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Photo: Jose Jimenez (Getty Images)Hurricane Fiona made landfall over Puerto Rico this past weekend, and the resulting widespread flooding and strong winds knocked out the grid for the island’s more than 3 million residents.The outages are apparent from space. NASA satellite images of Puerto Rico this week show a significant difference between this week and earlier in the summer.The metro area in the Northeastern part of the island, which…

Downed power lines on road PR-743 in Cayey as the island awoke to a general power outage on September 19, 2022 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photo: Jose Jimenez (Getty Images)Hurricane Fiona has caused widespread damage across Puerto Rico, and now the island is under a heat advisory. Most residents currently do not have electricity or running water.“There is a heat advisory in effect for all the north central to the northwest, and western Puerto Rico. Heat Indices between 105-109 degrees are expected between 10 AM- 4PM,” the…

A home is submerged in floodwaters caused by Hurricane Fiona in Cayey, Puerto Rico, on Sunday, September. 18, 2022. According to authorities three people were inside the home and were reported to have been rescued. Photo: Stephanie Rojas (AP)Luis Alexis Rodriguez-Cruz moved to Vermont in 2017 for a PhD program. He arrived at his new home less than a month before Hurricane Maria’s fateful landfall over Puerto Rico. He nervously followed updates, wondering how it would affect Juana Diaz, his hometown.An old friend called…

Hurricane Fiona tore through Puerto Rico on Sunday, knocking out power across the island and unleashing catastrophic flooding. As of writing, more than 1.36 million households are without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us.The storm killed at least one man in Guadeloupe in the eastern Caribbean. No deaths have been reported so far in Puerto Rico, but the full scope of damage remains unknown, and dangerous conditions persist on the ground. Hundreds of people were evacuated from the hardest hit and most vulnerable…

People look on at a section of a road that collapsed and continues to erode days after Hurricane Maria swept through the island on October 7, 2017 in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico.Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)Five years ago this month, Hurricane Maria formed in the Atlantic Ocean, creating one of the U.S.’s most devastating humanitarian disasters of the 21st century.The storm started off as a tropical depression around September 16, 2017; within just a few days, it grew to become the eighth hurricane for that year’s season…