Sentences with phrase «weeks after the hurricane»

The week after Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico and unleashed the single largest blackout in US history, Blake Richetta, the senior vice president of a renewable - energy company called Sonnen, boarded a plane bound for the island.

Harvey was downgraded to a tropical depression on Wednesday night, but many parts of Texas and western Louisiana were still underwater a week after the hurricane started.

WALLACE: A look outside the beltway at downtown Houston where the sun is out, but much of the city is still flooded more than one week after Hurricane Harvey made landfall.

Now, weeks after the Hurricane Harvey hit, the house she and her fiancé, Chris Russell, bought just a year and a half ago has been turned inside out — all its contents now in a pile on the lawn — a stuffed green dinosaur belonging to her 4 - year - old son, a cabinet, a cross stitch with a teddy bear and the words «A kind word is never wasted.»

Five weeks after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, the island appears to be in the midst of a growing environmental catastrophe.

With strong, damaging winds, Hurricane Maria has destroyed homes and critical infrastructure just two weeks after Hurricane Irma cut through the Caribbean.

None that escaped the Hollywood nursing home where eight patients died last week after Hurricane Irma knocked out power to the air conditioning system.

Roseau — Two weeks after Hurricane Maria obliterated Dominica, people affected by the Category Five hurricane are still in desperate need of assistance.

And for nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, as a humanitarian crisis was intensifying, the death toll was frozen at 16.

On October 4, two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Trump finally sent Congress a request for $ 29 billion more for disaster victims in the mainland US, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands; $ 13 billion is set aside to replenish the shrinking FEMA disaster relief fund, and the rest will go to pay federal flood insurance claims.

Two weeks after Hurricane Harvey caused devastating flooding in Houston, Congress passed an initial $ 15 billion relief bill — a pot of money the Federal Emergency Management Agency can use to help any disaster zones.

Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria, a category four storm, tore through Puerto Rico forging a path of devastation and destruction, many of the island's citizens still do not have access to food, water, medicine, or electricity.

Three weeks after Hurricane Irma crashed into Florida leaving behind widespread devastation, the American Red Cross and a large team of partners continue to work around the clock to provide shelter, food and comfort to people whose lives have been turned upside down.

Five weeks after Hurricane Harvey caused the largest flooding event in U.S. history, the American Red Cross continues to provide shelter, food, relief supplies and other support to help people whose lives were turned upside down.

Just over a week after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, reports are beginning to reveal its impact on the island's Christian community, including more than 1 million Protestants.

Rooms To Go's stores across Puerto Rico are gradually reopening two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.

In Houston, Carranza was widely praised for leading the successful effort to reopen schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey.

SAN JUAN — More than a week after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico and caused unprecedented destruction, Puerto Ricans who were in other parts of the US for the storm and unable to get home are beginning to trickle back in.

Maria hit Puerto Rico about two weeks after Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, killed more than 80 people in the Caribbean and the United States.

The tweets coming from a president ensconced in his New Jersey golf club sought to defend Washington's efforts to mobilize and coordinate recovery efforts on a U.S. territory in dire straits almost two weeks after Hurricane Maria struck.

Two weeks after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, less than six percent of citizens on the island have electricity, according to the Department of Defense.

A man in San Isidro, Puerto Rico, clears destroyed tree branches in a neighborhood without grid electricity more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island.

«Nearly a week after Hurricane Sandy, the people of the Rockaways are desperate for relief and assistance.

Six weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, 70 percent of the island is still without power.

Two weeks after Hurricane Irma's horrific pounding, and with two months left in the Atlantic Hurricane season, Florida's emergency management chief is heading out the door.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — One week after Hurricane Maria invaded Puerto Rico, frustration is growing as relief supplies are arriving on the island, but getting them to the nearly 3.5 million people in desperate need is close to impossible.

His superb leadership and yeoman work in the harrowing days and weeks after Hurricane Sandy were perhaps his finest hour, and a fitting coda to the first phase of what has been a stellar, if still emerging, career.

A Puerto Rican family gathers Monday in front of their damaged home in Jayuya that remains without water or electricity more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island.

As hundreds of people stood in line for food and many went hungry during the days and weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Walmart Inc. and local supermarkets threw out tons of spoiled meat, dairy and produce.

One week after Hurricane Maria invaded Puerto Rico, frustration is growing as relief supplies are arriving on the island, but getting them to the nearly 3.5 million people in desperate need is close to impossible.

Carranza won national praise for leading the successful effort to reopen Houston schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey hit, taking care of students, families and teachers who suffered.

For months, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello has been struggling to get the U.S. Treasury to release $ 4.7 billion in disaster recovery loans that the U.S. Congress approved in October, weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the island commonwealth.

De Blasio noted that in Houston, Carranza — who was de Blasio's second choice for the position — was praised for leading a successful effort to reopen schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey, which included securing transportation for students living in shelters and offering counseling for students and staff.

Puerto Rican scientists are still taking stock of the magnitude of the wreckage nearly two weeks after the hurricane made landfall on Sept. 20 as Category 4 winds propelled trees into buildings, knocked out power systems, left residents without fuel for generators and transportation and diminished access to drinking water and food supplies.

She especially admires how Pincus got the lab back up and running 6 weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

A week after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast, parts of the Northeast are still reeling from the wind, rain and flooding.

More than two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, now that its floodwaters have receded and the region's utilities and transportation systems have largely been restored, researchers and authorities are beginning to look at Sandy's other effects.

The storm comes about two weeks after Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm, hit Texas with severe rainfall and killed at least 60 people.

If the storm makes landfall, coming two weeks after Hurricane Harvey inundated parts of Texas, it would be the first time in recorded history that two hurricanes classified as Category 4 or higher hit the U.S. in a single season, according to Weather Underground.

For the first two weeks after the hurricane, it was not safe because of downed [power] lines and downed trees» and uncertainty about gasoline supplies for vehicles.

I arrived only weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit.

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, Brown University was offering to pick up 40 of the island's top students in a private jet and shuttle them...

A week after Hurricane Maria, the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in decades, there's less immediate concern about when schools will reopen and more about when children and families will have access to food, running water, and power.

The week after the hurricane, KIPP students who evacuated to Houston shelters called their teachers» cell phones to ask for help enrolling in school in Houston.

Following Harvey's path in mid-September, three weeks after the hurricane made landfall in Rockport, it's noteworthy to see how random and indiscriminate a natural disaster is.

Through his photos and story, he shows how Texas educators, school leaders, and community restored a sense of normalcy to their students weeks after hurricane landfall.

Recently, we met Delilah, a 9 - year - old Boxer / Lab mix rescued from Puerto Rico just weeks after Hurricane Maria tore through the island.

Suffering from a painful leg injury and host of debilitating ailments, this sweet senior arrived off a rescue transport from Puerto Rico just weeks after Hurricane Maria.

Mayor Sylvester Turner and the City Council balked at a developer's plan to build hundreds of homes in a west Houston flood plain last fall in the weeks after Hurricane Harvey, but will take up the same...

Pit bull advocates defame the Houston SPCA & Beaumont animal rescue center BEAUMONT, Texas ---- The foulest murky depths in Beaumont, Texas a week after Hurricane Harvey were not those left by the storm itself, but rather by an ad hoc coalition of pit bull advocates whetting old grudges against the Houston SPCA, possible dog thieves -LSB-...]