Flores said she and her husband, who is a doctor, moved from Mexico to Puerto Rico and were present when Hurricane Maria — a Category 5 storm that left about 3,000 people dead — struck the island almo
Flores said she and her husband, who is a doctor, moved from Mexico to Puerto Rico and were present when Hurricane Maria — a Category 5 storm that left about 3,000 people dead — struck the island almost exactly five years ago.
Flores’s colleague, Gustavo Pagan, grew up in Puerto Rico and also deployed his volunteer services after Maria hit. He quipped that they earned a diploma from responding to that storm, the last major one to hit the island. It has helped them prepare for Fiona. “We went blackout for us and personally, I went out of power for eight months in a row,” Pagan told Yahoo News. “With the remembrance of Hurricane Maria, we got Fiona. So everybody's like talking about mental health and those type of changes in life.” That’s a major part of the volunteers’ jobs: providing services for mental health and psychosocial support for those who need it. Hurricane Fiona breached Puerto Rico as a Category 1 storm, with wind speeds between 74 mph and 95 mph, on Sept. 18 and left rainfall of up to 31 inches in some parts of the island, according to theIt left 1.2 million people without energy on Tuesday. As of Thursday, approximately a million people wereBlame has shifted toward Luma Energy, the company contracted to fix Puerto Rico's outdated power grid. New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday to investigate the energy provider as"residents continue to endure frequent outages and high electrical rates."from the private company that his administration hired in 2021 to handle the U.S. territory's power transmission because of power outages happening well before the storm. “I am not satisfied with the performance of Luma,” said Pierluisi, who previously had praised the company. “It is obvious to me that you have to make changes to your execution plan to significantly improve the service you are offering our people.”, as interpreted by Google Translate,"LUMA and all our collaborators will not rest until all clients have electricity service and the electrical network is reenergized." It also stated that crews are working around the clock to restore power despite “unstable conditions.” Queremos compartir las condiciones inestables que nuestros equipos enfrentan mientras trabajan día y noche para restablecer el servicio eléctrico a través de Puerto Rico tras los daños devastadores provocados por el huracán