Puerto Rico on Her Mind: How to Help a Stricken Island Called Home
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Puerto Rico on Her Mind: How to Help a Stricken Island Called Home
25 miles Atlantic Ocean San Juan Luquillo Culebra Puerto Rico El Yunque National Forest Boquerón Vieques Caribbean
Sea St. Thomas Atlantic Ocean puerto rico St. John BARBUDA ANTIGUA Caribbean Sea 100 miles NOV. 3, 2017
A similar effort is underway in the United States Virgin Islands, another American territory in the Caribbean whose three islands — St. Thomas, St. John
and St. Croix — suffered modest to crippling losses from the one-two punch of Hurricanes Maria and Irma within a two-week span.
But tourism officials in the American Caribbean acknowledged
that Irma, which made landfall in the Virgin Islands on Sept. 6 as a Category 5 hurricane, and Maria, which hit Puerto Rico barely short of that magnitude as a Category 4, were like no other hurricanes in recent history because of their power and overwhelming reach.
Both governors in the American Caribbean — Puerto Rico with a population of 3.4 million, and the United States Virgin Islands, with about 110,000 residents — have optimistically said
that nearly all power should be back by Christmas because of a ramp-up in restoration work.
Richards said that Given the level of devastation in Puerto Rico,
But while cruise ship traffic has been rebounding, top hotels in Puerto Rico like El San Juan Hotel and Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, shut down because of damages and many of those
that remained open with the help of generators were housing workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other relief agencies.
"We also have family in Florida and we were going berserk with the hurricanes." Seasonal visitors to Puerto Rico — snowbirds, repeat tourists, those
who spend the Christmas holiday with family or friends — joined in the collective hand-wringing over the aftermath of this year’s powerful storms.
25 miles Atlantic Ocean San Juan Luquillo Culebra Puerto Rico El Yunque National Forest Boquerón Vieques Caribbean
Sea St. Thomas Atlantic Ocean puerto rico St. John BARBUDA ANTIGUA Caribbean Sea 100 miles NOV. 3, 2017
A similar effort is underway in the United States Virgin Islands, another American territory in the Caribbean whose three islands — St. Thomas, St. John
and St. Croix — suffered modest to crippling losses from the one-two punch of Hurricanes Maria and Irma within a two-week span.
But tourism officials in the American Caribbean acknowledged
that Irma, which made landfall in the Virgin Islands on Sept. 6 as a Category 5 hurricane, and Maria, which hit Puerto Rico barely short of that magnitude as a Category 4, were like no other hurricanes in recent history because of their power and overwhelming reach.
Both governors in the American Caribbean — Puerto Rico with a population of 3.4 million, and the United States Virgin Islands, with about 110,000 residents — have optimistically said
that nearly all power should be back by Christmas because of a ramp-up in restoration work.
Richards said that Given the level of devastation in Puerto Rico,
But while cruise ship traffic has been rebounding, top hotels in Puerto Rico like El San Juan Hotel and Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, shut down because of damages and many of those
that remained open with the help of generators were housing workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other relief agencies.
"We also have family in Florida and we were going berserk with the hurricanes." Seasonal visitors to Puerto Rico — snowbirds, repeat tourists, those
who spend the Christmas holiday with family or friends — joined in the collective hand-wringing over the aftermath of this year’s powerful storms.