Miriam Sierra Burgas will always remember the person who walked into her bakery within the small mountain city of Castañer, Puerto Rico, pleading for a days-old fritter. It was 5 days after Hurricane Maria handed, and Castañer, like the remainder of the island, was with out energy. Supermarkets have been out of meals, and water had stopped flowing from faucets.

“It’s no good; it’s chilly,” Burgas stated of the fritter. “And the particular person informed me, ‘Miss, you don’t know what’s chilly; starvation is chilly. That’s meals, and meals is rarely chilly. It’s by no means gone unhealthy.’”

After him got here folks with drugs to retailer in Burgas’ fridge, one of many few nonetheless operating because of her generator. Then got here residents of the close by nursing house in quest of energy for his or her medical…

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