Puerto Rico Recovery Inches On

摘要

In some parts of Puerto Rico, it looks like Hurricane Maria hit last month-not six months ago. In mountainous Naranjito, residents use river water for bathing and laundry; in Morovis, just 37 miles southwest of San Juan, residents remain relatively isolated as work continues on a replacement for the bridge washed away by the hurricane; in Yabucoa, where Maria came ashore, there is little evidence that electricity had ever served the people there. Even in San Juan, electricity, though restored, is spotty at best, and kept constant in hospitals and hotels with generators. More than half of the traffic signals in the territory are dark, leaving drivers to fend for themselves Mario Kart-style at intersections.