Wow! In Puerto Rico, solar power microgrids boost hurricane resilience
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at how, as Puerto Rico seeks to improve power grid wiped out by hurricanes Maria and Fiona, solar microgrids will help keep the lights on…
Biden to storm-hit Puerto Rico – “All of America’s with you”; 560,000 still without power in Florida
Ponce, Puerto Rico Reuters President Joe Biden on Monday pledged more than $US60 million in aid to help US territory Puerto Rico and said more money was coming, as he sought to present a more compassionate image than his predecessor, Donald Trump, while surveying damage from Hurricane Fiona. Soon after arriving with his wife, Jill […]
Wild horses face unruly storms as Fiona nears Canada’s east coast
Ottawa, CanadaReuters Shaggy, long-maned wild horses grazing freely on the sandy grasslands of the crescent-shaped Sable Island in the North Atlantic are expected to come under the swipe of a powerful storm forecast to hit eastern Canada this weekend. Hurricane Fiona, tracking northward after carving a destructive path through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, […]
Puerto Rico: Still recovering from Maria, Catholics assess Fiona’s blow to church buildings
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, reports that just as Catholic organisations were making progress on repairing a few dozen of the 1,000 Catholic buildings damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017, Hurricane Fiona swept in…
Hurricane Fiona heads to Bermuda, up to eight dead in Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico Reuters Hurricane Fiona strengthened to a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday as it headed toward Bermuda after carving a destructive path through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, where the storm left most people without power and up to eight dead. After making landfall in Puerto Rico on Sunday, Fiona […]
Hurricane Fiona slams Turks and Caicos as Category 3 storm
San Juan, Puerto Rico/Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Reuters Hurricane Fiona bore down on Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday as a powerful Category 3 storm, slamming the Caribbean archipelago with heavy rains and life-threatening flooding after cutting a path of destruction through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. US officials said on Tuesday the storm […]
Fiona batters Dominican Republic, leaves Puerto Rico in blackout
San Juan, Puerto Rico/Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Reuters Hurricane Fiona battered the Dominican Republic on Monday with torrential rain and winds as strong as 136.79 kilometres per hour, one day after triggering a total power outage in neighboring Puerto Rico where at least one person has died. The Category 1 hurricane will likely become a […]
Hurricane Fiona makes landfall on Puerto Rico, knocking out power to island
San Juan, Puerto Rico Reuters Most of the island of Puerto Rico was without power on Sunday as Hurricane Fiona made landfall, causing severe flooding and landslides before barreling toward the Dominican Republic, a government agency said. The center of the storm made landfall on the south-western coast of Puerto Rico near Punta Tocon at […]