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A home is submerged in floodwaters caused by Hurricane Fiona in Cayey, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. According to authorities three people were inside the home and were reported to have ...
Hurricane Fiona causes ‘catastrophic’ damage, island-wide power outage in Puerto Rico Syra Ortiz Blanes, Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Jacqueline Charles, David J. Neal September 18, 2022 at 11:25 AM
The National Hurricane Center said Puerto Rico could get 12 to 18 inches of rain, with 30 inches possible in some areas. Pierluisi said the storm dumped 9 to 13 inches of rain in five hours.
Hurricane Earl was a large, long-lived Category 2 hurricane that brought heavy rain to Puerto Rico and Newfoundland in September 2022 despite remaining mostly out to sea. The fifth named storm and second hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season , Earl originated from a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa on August 25.
March 15 – Puerto Rican government-debt crisis: Puerto Rico exits out of bankruptcy after completing the largest public debt restructuring in U.S. history. [2] April 7 – Around two million people in Puerto Rico are left without electricity after a fire occurs at one of the island's largest power plants.
Hurricane Maria near peak intensity to the southeast of Puerto Rico on September 19, 2017. The list of Puerto Rico hurricanes from the 21st century has been marked by several devastating North Atlantic hurricanes, tropical or subtropical cyclones, their remnants, or their precursors have affected the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
Hurricane Fiona has pummeled Puerto Rico, an island whose infrastructure struggled to recover from the devastating Hurricane Maria that killed almost 3,000 people in 2017. After Maria, many ...
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was a destructive and deadly Atlantic hurricane season.Despite having an average number of named storms and below average amount of major hurricanes, [nb 1] it became the fourth-costliest Atlantic hurricane season on record, behind only 2024, 2005, and 2017, mostly due to Hurricane Ian.