Officials are fanning out across Puerto Rico to gauge the damage inflicted by Hurricane Fiona
View of a house that was washed away by Hurricane Fiona at Villa Esperanza in Salinas, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, September 21, 2022. TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico — — City worker Carmen Medina walked purposefully through the working-class community of Tranquility Village under a brutal sun, with clipboard, survey forms and pen in hand — part of a small army of officials trying to gauge the scope of disaster caused by Hurricane Fiona's strike on Puerto Rico.
Pockets of water still bulged from her ceiling Friday in what had been a newly painted house, and Ortiz listed what she could recall of her lost furniture and other goods. Puerto Rico’s government has said it expects to have a preliminary estimate of the damage Fiona caused in roughly two weeks. “ affected our whole infrastructure. We are doing everything we can to fix it,” said Lawrence Kazmierski, senior vice president for Luma, the company that took over the island's power transmission and distribution more than a year ago.
Despite being on the opposite side of the island from where Fiona's eye made landfall, Toa Baja was especially hard hit because the Plata River — Puerto Rico’s longest — overflowed its banks into the city of more than 74,000 people.. “I see an emotional exhaustion in people. It’s a ‘here we go again,’” said Gretchen Hernández, a social worker who was overseeing the citywide survey.
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