25, 2017 during the noon hour rebroadcast during the 7 p.m. Listen to the complete interview with Cohen from Vermont Edition above. A resident bails water from a flooded home in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Catano, Puerto Rico in 2017. when Maria, a Category 4 storm, hit the island on Sept. territory is again facing the aftermath of a. You can find WNPR's reporting from Puerto Rico here. Exactly five years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. In a tweet on Monday, FEMA said that more than. Hurricane Maria: By comparison, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have seen much fewer personnel since Hurricane Maria hit, according to FEMA. It compounded destruction caused by hurricane Irma just weeks before.
PUERTO RICO HURRICANE AFTERMATH 2017 UPDATE
VPR's partners in the New England News Collaborative have also been following aid efforts to Puerto Rico, and Jeff Cohen, news director at WNPR in Hartford, Connecticut, has just returned from a reporting trip to the island.Ĭohen spoke with Vermont Edition to update us on what he's seen. Hurricane Maria: By comparison, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have seen much fewer personnel since Hurricane Maria hit, according to FEMA. Hurricane Maria, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in nearly a century, made landfall on 20 September 2017. And Vermonters have contributed individually as well, with private donations to aid organizations and companies donating their goods and services. Vermont has also sent National Guard staffers to help out in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Vermont Emergency Management announced yesterday that the state "is sending 86 compact radio access network units to Puerto Rico to support communications systems." In September 2017, Direct Relief committed 300,000 in cash for community health centers in Puerto Rico to aid recovery efforts in Hurricane Marias aftermath. aid to the island commonwealth has been slow in reaching those affected by these storms. Then Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 150 mile per hour, made landfall on Wednesday, Sept. It was initially clipped by Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 hurricane whose eye passed just north of the island.
Puerto Rico is still struggling to recover from two damaging storms that have devastated the island territory. Electricity poles and lines lay toppled on the road after Hurricane Maria hit the eastern region of the island, in Humacao, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Sept.
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