Hurricane Maria Refugees In Hartford Predict Long Recovery
"We are given information by
Blumenthal convened a meeting Monday morning at the
One of those first-person accounts came from
With her brother translating, Davila described long waits for food and medicine. The price of some items at grocery stores has doubled, she said. Even getting money has been a challenge. Banks aren't fully reopened and with the overwhelmingly majority of the island without power access to ATMs is limited.
State Rep.
Blumenthal said he and other senators surveyed storm damage from above in a Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter.
"I have never seen this kind of destruction," he said. "Homes were completely flattened -- thousands of homes. ... Just a tableau of utter and complete destruction."
Blumenthal has been critical of the Trump administration's response in
People with food stamps have had difficulty accessing their benefits because many grocery stores can only accept cash, not EBT cards, Hernandez said. The demand for gasoline has gotten so high, she said, that some people were driving more than an hour to find a station that hadn't run out. Her nephew, a police officer on the island, worked a 24-hour shift only to return home and find his house completely destroyed.
Hernandez predicted a protracted recovery from Maria, and said it was critical to paint a clear picture for lawmakers and others about what
"My hope ... is to be the voices of those people," she said. "We're going to make sure that our town and every other town gets what they need to survive. This is not going to go away in a year or two. We're looking at five years or more for
Deterville's cellphone is filled with photographs of downed trees and tangled power lines.
"Life has changed in an instant," she said. One of those changes was the decision to come back to
Deterville, a teacher, expects it will be months before schools in
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