Officials Raise Puerto Rico's Death Toll From Hurricane Maria to nearly 3,000 people

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-death-toll

Officials have started to investigate the lives lost from September 2017 to February 2018 due to hurricanes. They went and surveyed about 3,300 families in January and February of 2018. In May they estimated that over 4,000 deaths have occurred. Four months after the storm they counted another 1,427 deaths. My reaction to this is shocking. In Pennsylvania we don't really see disasters like this and I feel like sometimes we are blind sighted to other places that do go through these disasters. I find it unbelievable that all those people lost their lives in one storm. I feel bad for all the families that had lost a loved one. I feel like those people should either move or try to build more stable structures so they don't lose as much.


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  1. AnonymousAugust 29, 2018 at 6:37 AM

    I agree that is is sad, but it is hard for them to move. A lot of people in Puerto Rico are in poverty, so they cannot afford to move or build bigger, more stable homes.

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