BREAKING: Fiona has strengthened into a hurricane as it heads for Puerto Rico. Forecasters said “historic” levels of rain were expected to produce landslides and heavy flooding, with up to 25 inches forecast in isolated areas.
More than 3,000 homes still have only a blue tarp as a roof, and infrastructure remains weak.
More than 100 people had sought shelter across the island by Saturday night, the majority of them in the southern coastal city of Guayanilla. Rivera said his employees brought bedridden family members to the hotel, where he has stocked up on diesel, gasoline, food, water and ice, given how slowly the government responded after Hurricane Maria.“What we’ve done is prepared ourselves to depend as little as possible on the central government,” he said.
“What worries me most is the rain,” said forecaster Ernesto Morales with the National Weather Service in San Juan.
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