How to Help Recovery Efforts After Hurricane Fiona
Hurricane Fiona slammed Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic with high winds and rainfall on September 18 and 19, causing mass power outages and damage to homes and infrastructure, CNN reported. The island’s water filtration systems have been particularly hard-hit, leaving about two million people without running water.“The damages that we are seeing are catastrophic,” Puerto Rico’s governor Pedro Pierluisi told the Associated Press.The AP reported several hurricane-related deaths: One man in Puerto Rico was killed in a flood and one person in the Dominican Republic was killed by a tree. A third man in Puerto Rico died from burns while trying to refuel his generator during the blackout.More than a million homes and businesses are still without power as of yesterday, according to Reuters. Last week President Biden authorized federal emergency…