‘Days were lost’: Why Puerto Rico is still suffering a month after Hurricane Maria
BY PATRICIA MAZZEI AND OMAYA SOSA PASCUAL
pmazzei@miamiherald.com
Center for Investigative Journalism
OCTOBER 19, 2017 2:17 PM
SNIPPET:
MAUNABO, PUERTO RICO
Before Hurricane Maria tore through the rest of this island, it came to Mayor Jorge Márquez’s home.
The storm ripped through improvised plastic shutters, shook the windows and sent his panicked family, including his grandchildren, scurrying to a bathroom to hide. For four hours, as the fiercest of Maria’s winds roared through his mountain town in southeast Puerto Rico, Márquez kept the wind from forcing itself in by pushing a dining table hard against the front door.
At the end, when the winds finally died down, he stepped outside to glimpse at the damage to the town he’s run for nearly two decades. Tattered roofs littered the ground. Snapped trees mangled power lines. The local hospital was lost. The town’s funeral home was gone.
Márquez wept.
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