Some 80% of islanders still don’t have electricity, and many also lack running water.
New York City dispatched an emergency management team to help assess damage and determine how the city could help, Mayor Eric Adamson Tuesday, suggesting a multi-agency contingent could follow in the coming days. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Monday that the state will send 100 Spanish-speaking troopers equipped with drones to survey the damage.
Most of her family on both islands lack water and electricity, she said. The roof blew off one of the rooms in her aunt’s house and her brother’s children are finishing schoolwork by candlelight, she said. Five years ago, she was living in New Jersey and working in New York City – where much of her family immigrated in the 1950s. She said she still remembers the relief that punctured her ongoing anxiety when she received the first call from her brother that he was okay after Maria.for Puerto Rico on the Upper West Side. Water now pours from her brother’s ceiling, she said, still in need of repairs since Hurricane Maria.
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