hurricane maria occurred in puerto rico in 2017.
hurricane maria occurred in puerto rico in 2017.
when did hurricane maria occur in puerto rico?
2017
effects of hurricane maria in puerto rico









































hurricane maria in september 2017 devastated the entirety of puerto rico and caused a major humanitarian crisis. originally a powerful category 5 hurricane, maria was the strongest storm to impact the island in nearly 90 years. maria made landfall on puerto rico on september 20 at high-end category 4 status, bringing a large storm surge, very heavy rains, and wind gusts well above , flattening neighborhoods and crippling the island's power grid. an estimated 2,982 fatalities and us$90 billion in damage occurred as a result of the hurricane.









































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effects of hurricane maria in puerto rico
on october 3, 2017, president trump visited puerto rico. he compared the damage from hurricane maria to that of hurricane katrina, saying: "if you looked — every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overbearing, nobody has seen anything like this (...) what is your death count as of this morning, 17?". trump's remarks were widely criticized for implying that hurricane maria was not a "real catastrophe". while in puerto rico, trump also distributed canned goods and paper towels to crowds gathered at a relief shelter and told the residents of the devastated island "i hate to tell you, puerto rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack, because we've spent a lot of money on puerto rico, and that's fine. we saved a lot of lives."
effects of hurricane maria in puerto rico