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Puerto Rico Has Put Itself In The Running For Amazon’s HQ2
Puerto Rico, which is still in shambles after it took an infrastructure-shattering direct hit from Hurricane Maria in September, has submitted a long-shot bid to host Amazon’s second headquarters.
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FEMA Deletes Information About Lack Of Water And Electricity In Puerto Rico
The FEMA website has been an important tool for keeping people up to date on disaster recovery efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. But yesterday, the agency deleted statistics about how many people have access to electricity and clean water on the island. The FEMA website now only displays information that casts the recovery…
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Puerto Rico Remains Mostly In The Dark And Badly In Need Of Aid
Sometimes, space offers a striking vantage for visualising the scale of a crisis. Satellite photos of Puerto Rico at night before and after Hurricane Maria roared through show an island stripped of its electricity — and they remind us just how long it’s going to take the battered US territory to recover.
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Maria’s Path Of Destruction Across Puerto Rico And The US Virgin Islands Is Heartbreaking
Hurricane Maria is currently churning off the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, leaving behind historic levels of destruction in Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and several Caribbean nations. Recovery and cleanup efforts have already begun, but as grim new photographs show, these tropical islands have their work cut out for them.