Ysamar Figueroa carrying her son Saniel, looks at the damage in the neighborhood after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria, in Canovanas, Puerto Rico. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)The author, Bryan Norcross, is senior hurricane specialist at The Weather Channel and author of “My Hurricane Andrew Story.”All Americans should be horrified by the depth of the tragedy in Puerto Rico. It is impossible to describe the scope of the catastrophe in Puerto Rico and the surrounding islands. The Andrew catastrophe zone was, perhaps, 250 square miles and involved about 350,000 people — closer to 100,000 after those that could resettled elsewhere did. Puerto Rico is about 3,500 square miles and home to about 3.4 million people.

Source: Washington Post September 27, 2017 14:59 UTC