Getting over Hurricane Maria
Some people and businesses have given up on disaster-prone Dominica
LAST September two category-five hurricanes battered the Caribbean. First came Irma, which hit a cluster of islands in the region’s north-east and then Florida. Maria arrived two weeks later, hammering Dominica, an island state with a population of 74,000, on September 18th, and Puerto Rico two days later. Between them, the hurricanes caused colossal damage. In Puerto Rico alone, more than 3,000 people may have died in the six months since Maria struck.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Getting over Maria”
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