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Maria Destroys Homes, Triggers Flooding in Puerto Rico

Trees stripped of their foliage and damaged trucks stand at the principal entrance at the Emergency Management Agency during the impact of Maria, a Category
5 hurricane that hit the eastern region of the island, in Humacao, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017.
(AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
By DANICA COTO deeper into financial crisis. life-threatening winds for
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Leaving at least nine several hours, the second
— The strongest hurricane people dead in its wake time in two weeks that
to hit Puerto Rico in more across the Caribbean, Puerto Rico has felt the
than 80 years destroyed Hurricane Maria blew wrath of a hurricane.“Once
hundreds of homes, ashore in the morning near we’re able to go outside,
knocked out power across the southeast coastal town we’re going to find
the entire island and of Yabucoa as a Category our island destroyed,”
turned some streets into 4 storm with winds of 155 warned Abner Gomez,
raging rivers Wednesday mph (250 kph). Puerto Rico’s emergency
in an onslaught that could It punished the island of management director.
plunge the U.S. territory 3.4 million people with Continued on Page 2