Hurricane Fiona Batters Puerto Rico - Makes Landfall in Dominican Republic
Hurricane Fiona has wreaked a “catastrophic” trail of destruction in Puerto Rico, knocking out power grids, destroying infrastructure and unleashing “historic” floods and landslides - with a further 30 inches (76cm) of rainfall forecast for the east and south of the island.
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Large parts of Puerto Rico have still not recovered from the devastation caused by 2017’s Hurricane Maria or the fierce earthquakes in late 2019, while energy operator Luma blamed 80mph winds for disrupting transmission lines and causing a total blackout across the territory.
Fiona reached the Dominican Republic Monday, and is expected to hit Haiti, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas by Tuesday.
