Puebloan frantic, trying to reach family members in Puerto Rico

This massive worldwide crowdfunding community that connects nonprofits and donors is providing emergency supplies like food, water and medicine to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico. Although Hurricane Irma only touched Puerto Rico, it left one million residents without power.

Two American Airlines planes from Miami and one from Philadelphia arrived at San Juan’s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport Friday morning. She added that regular service likely won’t resume until Wednesday. The backyards of many houses abutted the ridge, but the residents there said they felt safe because their houses sat a few dozen yards above the water. Equally welcome was his announcement that he plans to visit Puerto Rico. And the island is getting a picture of what the damage has been, and it’s turning out to be a very grim picture. “I’ve been checking Facebook every day to see if someone will give an update and I haven’t heard anything yet”, Vega said. Furthermore, residents worry that they will be neglected in recovery efforts due to the multiple major hurricanes that have already hit the United States and its territories in the past month. Once assessments are complete, officials will share information about when VA clinics will be operational. Patients with appointments will be contacted as soon as possible to reschedule. But he was anxious about reports of looting and crime and concerned for those who had not heard from their loved ones.

Alexis Cruz and Hecmart Nieves are both 23-year-old Ottawa Baseball players from Puerto Rico who plan to travel September 24 to volunteer and help better the situation.

Heat and dehydration will be the main health concerns for team members, said Dr. Deepak Chandwani, an emergency room doctor at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton. All donations to this fund exclusively support hurricane relief and recovery efforts in the Caribbean. As of Sunday afternoon, the Associated Press has reported at least 10 deaths in Puerto Rico, but CNN reports that officials are describing the present quality of life there as “apocalyptic”. Regardless of the exact track, Maria should track closely enough for tropical storm force conditions to impact the outer banks by early next week. But Public Affairs Secretary Ramon Rosario said in a statement that the dam’s “fissure was big and it will collapse at any minute”.

A lot of mainland Americans don’t realize that Puerto Ricans are Americans. “Interests in the Bahamas and along the Carolina and Mid-Atlantic coasts should monitor the progress of Maria”.

The Hurricane Center says it was centred about 765 kilometres south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina before noon Sunday.

Frank Giannasca, senior meteorologist at the Weather Channel, said forecasters are “expecting risky surf, beach erosion, and rip currents to affect beaches from Florida to the mid-Atlantic States”.