Hours of nonstop rainfall and catastrophic floods continue to ravage the island of Puerto Rico as Hurricane Fiona wreaks havoc for a third day in a row.
Families are stranded and without power. The National Guard has already rescued hundreds.“My mom was telling me that the flooding is crazy, it’s not stopping,” said Francisco Rivera, owner of Puerto Rico Detailing in Roy.“Actually she was comforting me,” he said. “She was telling me, ‘It was OK, it was OK.’ That she was OK and she safe.”“There’s a specific and horrible kind of anxiety that exists not just for me but people in the diaspora,” she said.
“They exemplify the playful spirit that is inherent in Puerto Ricans where they will find joy in almost any situation,” she said. “I like to think of my vejigantes as tired but happy. And I think that’s how a lot of Puerto Ricans feel,” she said. “They’ve been fighting everything with just one foot on the ground, you know?“[My mother’s] like, ‘Actually, we’re cleaning up. Customers are coming to help clean so we can get the store going.’ And that’s the attitude, that’s the attitude of Puerto Ricans,” he said. “Something happens and we’re going to get back up.
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