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Damaging wind gusts, flooding in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. As Ernesto pummeled Puerto Rico early Wednesday morning, officials issued flash flood warnings and the National Hurricane ...
Schools and offices were shut in Puerto Rico as it was hit by torrential rain from Hurricane Ernesto, which became the season's third hurricane. Hurricane Ernesto hits Puerto Rico with heavy rain ...
Puerto Rico's power grid was wiped out in 2017 by Hurricane Maria, which slammed the island as a strong Category 4 storm. "The government today is much better prepared," said Juan Saca, president ...
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.
[138] In an update on October 19, the agency called the situation in Puerto Rico "unacceptable" and called for "a more robust and efficient response from the US government". [139] A rally for victims of the hurricane and Puerto Rico's status in general, in Long Beach, California, on October 3. On October 3, 2017, President Trump visited Puerto ...
Hurricane Fiona's landfall on the island of Puerto Rico brought immediate comparisons to the chaos triggered by Hurricane Maria, which made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane on ...
Upon making landfall in Puerto Rico, Hurricane Georges brought 10 and 20-foot storm surges in succession. [4] Rainfall totaled out to 30.51 inches (775 mm) in Jayuya with rains of up to 25 inches (640 mm) spread around the rest of the island. [5] As the mountains' flooding drained off into every river in Puerto Rico and causing them to overflow ...
Earlier Tuesday afternoon, around 1.2 million customers in Puerto Rico, or 82.2% of the electricity company's clients, were spending New Year's Eve without electricity.