Puerto Rico in the Dark

[Gerald]

A bridge destroyed by Hurricane Maria was temporarily repaired by local laborers in Utuado, Puerto Rico. Credit Joseph Rodríguez for The New York Times.

Like most members of the Puerto Rican diaspora, I couldn’t reach my family and friends on the island for more than a week after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Sept. 20. All I had to work with was a quick phone call my mother’s neighbor had made to my sister. The neighbor said that my mother and my aunt had ridden out the storm together, that they were basically fine. My mother’s home, made of sturdy concrete, was intact.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/o...&rref=homepage

Tough situation.


Note: NOV. 4, 2017