Puerto Rico awaits aid, residents fret about post-Fiona recovery
Fiona hit a week ago and about 45% of Puerto Rico’s power customers remain in the dark and about 20% of water customers have no service.
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Fiona hit a week ago and about 45% of Puerto Rico’s power customers remain in the dark and about 20% of water customers have no service.
Officials are fanning out across Puerto Rico to gauge the damage inflicted by Hurricane Fiona.
TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico (AP) — City worker Carmen Medina walked purposefully through the working-class community of Tranquility Village under a brutal sun, with clipboard, survey forms and pen in hand — part of a small army of officials trying to gauge the scope of disaster caused by Hurricane Fiona's strike on Puerto Rico.
Fiona hit a week ago and about 45% of Puerto Rico’s power customers remain in the dark and about 20% of water customers have no service.
As of Sunday, about 45% of Puerto Rico’s 1.47 million power customers remained in the dark, and 20% of 1.3 million water customers had no service as workers struggled to reach submerged power substations and fix downed lines.