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Patients were brought to the ship by helicopter or boat tender after being referred by Puerto Rico's Department of Health. However, most of the 250 bed floating state-of-the-art hospital went unused despite overburdened island clinics and hospitals because there were few referrals.
In Puerto Rico, the highest rainfall total was 2.4 inches (61 mm) in Rio Piedras. [5] August 22–23 – Tropical Storm Dean dropped heavy rainfall across Puerto Rico, peaking at 12.7 inches (322 mm) in Salinas. The passage of Dean resulted in widespread flooding in eastern and southern Puerto Rico, collapsing two bridges and one road.
Puerto Rico is a major manufacturer of medical devices and pharmaceuticals, which represent 30% of its economy. [197] These factories shut down or greatly reduced production because of the hurricane, and were slowly recovering since. [198] This caused a months long shortage in medical supplies in the United States, especially of IV bags.
Fiona may produce 12 to 18 inches of rain in Puerto Rico, according to the National Hurricane Center. That figure may reach 30 inches in the southern and eastern regions. That figure may reach 30 ...
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National Hurricane Center’s 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, eastern map shows Tropical Storm Danielle’s position.
The United States’ mainland East Coast has little to worry about from the hurricane, the tropical storm or, for now, the third system that’s in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the National ...
1970 – Caribbean–Azores hurricane struck Puerto Rico as a tropical depression, it was the wettest tropical cyclone on record to affect Puerto Rico. [90] The depression left 10,000 people homeless across Puerto Rico, [91] with 3,000 housed in emergency shelters in San Juan. [92] At least 600 houses were destroyed and another 1,000 damaged. [93]