Sentences with phrase «month after the hurricane»

NEW YORK, March 27 - Puerto Ricos Government Development Bank, the islands insolvent former fiscal agent now in wind - down mode, has tweaked its $ 5 billion debt restructuring deal to help keep small towns afloat six months after Hurricane Maria.

The United States Penitentiary, Beaumont, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was inaccessible to visitors for up to a month after the hurricane.

More than six months after Hurricane Maria, daily life in Castañer, Puerto Rico, is nowhere close to normal as residents try to deal with the effects of trauma, chronic stress and the continued lack of electricity.

Since its founding in 2006, six months after Hurricane Katrina in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, the organization has rebuilt more than 1,300 homes across seven disaster - impacted states.

The Tarpon Inn in Port Aransas is opening its doors to guests once again, eight months after Hurricane Harvey.

More than two months after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico and devastated the island — knocking out its power grid and leaving millions without potable water — the official death toll has stayed surprisingly low at 62.

Going to school, having clean drinking water, and even getting regular trash service remains a daily challenge months after Hurricane Maria swept through.

A podcast revealing the tragedy of where things stand six months after Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico's power crisis has improved little a month after Hurricane Marie took out the power grid.

Multimedia Journalist, Nadine Young, captured the lingering effects months after Hurricane Irma had passed.

After an island - wide blackout hit Puerto Rico nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria, power was restored to previous levels Thursday, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority said.

Close to three months after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico, many Puerto Ricans are struggling for survival and fighting to remain, reclaim, and rebuild.

Nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the island is suffering another blackout.

Almost one month after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, technology firms like Tesla are stepping in to fill the relief - effort void that many say President Donald Trump has created.

More than two months after Hurricane Harvey landed in Houston, many post-Harvey resources have begun to close their doors, and other outside resources are beginning to resign from Houston — leaving some communities without vital recovery resources.

Two months after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is working to rescue stranded Puerto Ricans and bring them to the...

Cuomo continued to call on Congress to fund a $ 94.4 billion disaster relief package for Puerto Rico at a rally in the Bronx on Saturday, more than four months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island territory.

HARTFORD, Conn. — The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, said Thursday that the island remains in desperate need of help eight months after Hurricane Maria and isn't ready for...

The Army Corps of Engineers is ending its work to rebuild Puerto Rico's electric grid despite fears the island's government won't be able to restore power on its own to more than 16,000 people who remain blacked out eight months after Hurricane Maria.

Six months after Hurricane Maria hit the island on September 20, 2017, uprooting trees, destroying homes, and causing widespread flooding, many remain without power.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)-- An island - wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday after an excavator accidentally downed a transmission line, officials said, as the U.S. territory struggles to repair an increasingly unstable power grid nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria.

More than a month after Hurricane Maria hit on Sept. 20, power is still out on most parts of...

Seven months after Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast, Cuomo proclaimed that May 26 through June 1 will now be Hurricane Preparedness Week.

Lopez was on the devastated island about a week after being appointed, a month after the hurricanes hit.

Two months after Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico, scores of people were still dying in its aftermath, new government data suggest.

The Democrat said conditions on the island remain «deplorable» and noted that 80 percent of residents remain without power and almost a third have no access to clean drinking water more than a month after Hurricane Maria hit.

More than four months after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, 15 - year - old Salvador Gomez Colon is shocked by the poor living conditions that persist in many of the towns throughout the island.

Related: Nearly half a million in Puerto Rico still in the dark four months after Hurricane Maria

Five months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, activists say that more aid is needed for the Island.

Puerto Rico was hit with a massive power outage, the power authority said Thursday — nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria destroyed much of the island's infrastructure and its electrical grid.

Ruiz said that his hotel lost power for over a month after Hurricane Maria hit last year, and the beaches were eroded «pretty bad» and «lost quite a bit of sand.»

The last of the federal government's power restoration crews are scheduled to leave Puerto Rico when their contract expires next week, leaving the island's power utility with the task of energizing the last 1.5 percent of customers still waiting eight months after Hurricane Maria.

«We can keep raising money, but it's not going to do any good if the government doesn't help us,» Miranda said, noting that two months after Hurricane María, Puerto Rico remains in dire need.

MINNEAPOLIS — Less than two months after Hurricane Irene barreled up the eastern coastline of the United States, a group of scientists from some of the areas hardest hit presented evidence of the storm's dramatic geological effects on their home states.

Nearly a month after Hurricane Maria wiped out Puerto Rico's rickety electrical grid, emergency responders are still struggling to treat the immediate health needs of people on the island.

Seven months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico and its power grid, the entire island lost power again th... twitter.com/i/web/status/9...

Nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico has entirely lost power, with all 1.5 million electricity customers being plunged into darkness yet again.

Seven months after Hurricane Irma and #SEFL residents are both recovering and looking ahead to the next hurricane and #sealevelrise.

Nearly five months after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, more than a hundred thousand US citizens... The memo proposed dozens of «pro — free market» ideas...

This video was taken on St. John, an island in the US Virgin Islands, on October 7, 2017 - just over one month after Hurricane Irma struck.

April 18, 2018 • Six months after Hurricane Maria pounded Puerto Rico, patience in the remote mountain village of Castañer is wearing thin.

Upon graduation, she moved back home to break into the Hollywood South on HBO's Treme, a drama set in New Orleans months after the hurricane.

December 6, 2012 • A month after Hurricane Sandy pounded the New Jersey Shore, Atlantic City is back in business.

Reporter Andrew Ujifusa gives an update from Puerto Rico on where the U.S. territory's schools stand several months after Hurricane Maria.

On the morning of December 15, 2005, little more than three months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, Rene Lewis - Carter welcomed students to the brand - new Martin Behrman Charter Academy of Creative Arts & Sciences.

Before the storm there were 5 charter schools in a district of 65,000 students; by May of 2006, ten months after the hurricane, there were 18 charters in a New Orleans Public School district educating just 12,000 students (see Figure 2).

Six months after Hurricane Maria, the island's Department of Education announces plans to close 283 public schools.

A month after the hurricane hit, 79 percent of the island's 3 million citizens are still without electricity and about 1 million people do not have safe drinking water.

About one percent of the island's customers remain without power eight months after Hurricane Maria.

Almost three months after Hurricane Harvey, Best Friends has wrapped up operations at the NRG Arena in Houston, after helping nearly 800 animals.