The high - flying balloons were able to help Peru earlier in the
year amid significant
floods in the country, and so success in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands is largely expected.
In the days after Hurricane Sandy battered the Eastern Seaboard, educators across multiple states faced the daunting task of reopening thousands of schools
amid widespread power outages,
flooding and wind damage, and other aftereffects of a storm that caused one of the largest disruptions to schooling in the United States in recent
years.