Hurricane Fiona blew most of Puerto Rico's avocados off their trees. Now people are racing to eat and give them away before they go bad.
Magaly Vázquez and Pedro Lugo, with the avocados and bananas that friends have given them after Hurricane Fiona knocked much of the island's fruit off trees.Magaly Vázquez and Pedro Lugo, with the avocados and bananas that friends have given them after Hurricane Fiona knocked much of the island's fruit off trees.LAJAS, Puerto Rico — There's an old superstition in Puerto Rico that when the avocado trees are especially full of fruit, there's a hurricane coming.
Hurricane Fiona – which slammed the island last weekend — caused catastrophic flooding and landslides in many communities, and at least two deaths. Its 85-mph winds blew roofs off their houses. And it claimed another casualty. On much of the island, Fiona blew all the avocados off of their trees. Across Puerto Rico, avocados have become a currency of community this week. People have been opening their front doors to find bags full of them, left there by neighbors. Buckets filled with the fruit have been left along the sides of the winding mountain roads left partially impassible by landslides.
"At work today my colleagues gave me three bags!" said Pedro Lugo, who lives in the town of Lajas, on the island's southwest coast."I said, 'What am I going to do with all of these? I can't eat guacamole everyday!'"When Fiona's winds picked up, Lugo began to worry about his neighbor's avocado tree. He went into the bathroom and watched for hours through a small window.By the time the winds had passed, only a single avocado had survived.
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