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July 30–31 - In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Isaias caused about 448,000 people and 23 hospitals to lose power and about 150,000 people lost water service due to electric blackouts and blocked intakes. [ 127 ] [ 128 ] In Jayuya, a town in the center of Puerto Rico experienced substantial effects including the loss of its 1.5 million dollar hot air ...
2.2 Season 2 (2015) 2.3 Season 3 (2016) ... Trump's response to Hurricane Maria's impact on Puerto Rico, ... Electric utilities.
Category 2 hurricane 100 (155) 968 Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Atlantic Canada, British Isles: $520 million 3 Francine: September 9–12 Category 2 hurricane 100 (155) 972 Eastern Mexico, Gulf Coast of the United States: $1.5 billion None Gordon September 11–17 Tropical storm 45 (75) 1004 None None None Helene: September 24–27
In 2017, Hurricane Maria caused widespread death and damage to Puerto Rico. That, a Category 5 storm, claimed more than 2,975 lives and led to a nearly 11-month effort to restore electric service ...
By 7 a.m., between 2 and 6 inches of rain had fallen in parts of eastern Puerto Rico, and an additional 2 to 3 inches was projected. ... Ernesto fifth named storm in 2024 hurricane season.
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands were recovering from Wednesday's deluge. At its peak, half of Puerto Rico's utility customers – as many as 730,000 – were in the dark.
August 16, 1508 – Hurricane San Roque is considered to be the first recorded hurricane to affect Puerto Rico. Reported by Juan Ponce de León, his caravel left Santo Domingo, but another storm after the preceding storm beached it on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico at Guayanilla. [2] It mainly affected the southwest coast of the island. [3 ...
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 ...