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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Puerto Rico was hit by an atomic bomb of nature."
Tweet from journalist Julio Ricardo Varela, copying a message from a friend of his on Facebook, and asking people to retweet:
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malaise
(269,256 posts)It's beyond devastation
highplainsdem
(49,091 posts)Just the heat will be a tremendous problem with the power out. I was just reading on Weather Underground that the forecast for the next ten days is for the heat index to be near or above 100 degrees each day.
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/more-havoc-category-3-maria-plows-northward
malaise
(269,256 posts)One of friends says to expect five times the original number.
In both islands the absence of electricity means lot of hospital equipment isn't working so folks who survived the hurricane won't get treatment.
Add to that the robberies that are yet to come because hungry and 'no light' are a bad mixture
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Some people concoct their apocalyptic visions. These people are living the real thing.