'The PTSD is really strong around here but, you know, we have to stand still and keep going.' In the wake of Hurricane Fiona, emotions are running high in Puerto Rico:
"The PTSD is really strong," one resident says.Fiona brought heavy rains, flooding and landslides, five years after Maria's devastation.
He was one of several people interviewed Thursday via video, phone and social media messaging who talked about how it feels to live in a place repeatedly hit by disasters in recent years, including storms and earthquakes. Cars drive under precariously knocked-down power lines on road PR-303 on Sept. 20, 2022, in Lajas, Puerto Rico. The island experienced a total blackout after Hurricane Fiona.killed an estimated 3,000 people in Puerto Rico. Some households were without electricity for more than a year.
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