https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/23/hurricane-fiona-puerto-rico-floods/
I hope mitigation and repairs occur more quickly this time. It’s a bit disheartening to see so little accomplished in the last 5 years. And it sounds like there needs to be more attention to land development regulations as well.
“The U.S. government made historic allocations, including more than $3 billion for hazard mitigation, to Puerto Rico after Maria — some of which was slated to go toward preventing severe flooding during storms. A separate pot of federal public assistance money is designated for rebuilding public infrastructure. In Salinas, which was walloped by Maria and battered again by Fiona, officials have submitted 74 projects to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for funding. To date, just seven — including road repairs and a basketball court — have been completed, data from Puerto Rico’s Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency, shows. About two dozen more entered the construction phase in the last six months.”