After Hurricanes Maria and Irma, Puerto Rico all but slipped from the modern era. The human and economic damage wrought by all that time without power may be irreparable.https://nyti.ms/2FVZMTp
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Our reporters witnessed a woozy empire of wreckage; of waiting in line for food, water and gas and then finding another line to wait in some morehttps://twitter.com/luisferre/status/912671098306736128 …
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In October, Whitefish Energy, a 2-employee company from Montana, was awarded a $300 million contract to rebuild 100 miles of power transmission lines. After a scandal erupted, the government canceled the deal.https://nyti.ms/2KLbR1I
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In December, a review by The New York Times of daily mortality data indicated a significantly higher death toll in Puerto Rico after the hurricane than the government there has acknowledgedhttps://nyti.ms/2KHKJR0
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3 months after the storms,
@sherifink provided a look inside Puerto Rico's largest housing project for low-income seniors. She helped explain the hurricanes' continuing impact on the vulnerable. https://nyti.ms/2FVbq14 pic.twitter.com/CN7h3X8vpQ
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In January,
@itscaitlinhd and@nytvideo took us inside Puerto Rico’s only suicide prevention call center, where the phones were ringing constantly https://nyti.ms/2KK7K5K pic.twitter.com/EGiv8qXbqlShow this thread -
A one-woman company was awarded a huge contract by FEMA to provide 30 million meals to hungry people in Puerto Rico. Only 50,000 were delivered.https://nyti.ms/2KK7R1a
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Almost everybody in Puerto Rico had their lights back on — until a freak accident on April 18 briefly plunged the entire island into darkness once againhttps://nyti.ms/2KJ9ZpS
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More than 6 months after Hurricanes Irma and Maria swept across Puerto Rico, people are still without power. The hurricane season returns in June. https://nyti.ms/2KJarV6 pic.twitter.com/EgwMdvsHMc
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