People inside a house await rescue from the floods caused by Hurricane Fiona in Cayey, Puerto Rico, Sunday, September 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Stephanie Rojas)
- Catastrophic flooding in Puerto Rico as Hurricane Fiona dumps nearly 30 inches of rain
- Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico’s southwest coast on Sunday, bringing destructive flooding, mudslides and an island-wide power blackout one day after leaving one dead in the Leeward Islands. The storm went on to make a second landfall in the Dominican Republic very early on Monday morning.
- Fiona was a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, when it made landfall.
- LUMA Energy, the private company that handles the transmission and distribution of electricity in Puerto Rico, stated that full power restoration could take days “due to the magnitude and scope of the blackout.”
- More than 778,000 residents in Puerto Rico were without drinking water as of Monday, El Nuevodia, a local news source reported.
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