September 21, 2022

Hurricane Fiona strengthens into a Category 4 storm

By Shirvan Williams

Hurricane Fiona is now a Category 4 storm and is heading to Bermuda later this week. The storm wreaked havoc as it slammed into Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

So far there have been at least four deaths and the winds and torrential rain in Puerto Rico left a majority of people without power or running water.

“Hurricane Fiona has severely impacted electrical infrastructure and generation facilities throughout the island. We want to make it very clear that efforts to restore and reenergize continue and are being affected by severe flooding, impassable roads, downed trees, deteriorating equipment, and downed lines,” said Luma, the company that operates power transmission and distribution, that spoke with AP News.

Power has been restored to about 380,000 of the island’s 1.47 million customers so far.

Over in the Turks and Caicos Islands, officials reported minimal damage and no deaths despite the storm’s eye passing close to Grand Turk.

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