Video captures the moment surging floodwaters washed away a bridge in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Fiona on Sunday. The National Hurricane Center warned of 'catastrophic flooding' and a 'potential local maximum' of 30 inches of rainfall on the island.
Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico's southwest coast on Sunday as it unleashed landslides, knocked the power grid out and ripped up asphalt from roads and flung the pieces around.would cause massive flooding and threatened to dump"historic" levels of rain, with up to 30 inches possible in eastern and southern Puerto Rico.
U.S. President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency in the U.S. territory as the eye of the storm approached the island's southwest corner. Residents attach protective plywood to a window of their home in preparation for the arrival of Tropical Storm Fiona, in Loiza, Puerto Rico, on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022.Fiona hit just two days before the anniversary of Hurricane Maria, a devastating Category 4 storm that struck on Sept. 20, 2017, destroying the island's power grid and causing nearly 3,000 deaths.
Puerto Rico's power grid was razed by Hurricane Maria and remains frail, with reconstruction starting only recently. Outages are a daily occurrence. "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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