More than four months later, the family of five is squeezed into two rooms in a hotel in Brooklyn. "After the hurricane hit we told the kids that every day was going to be an adventure, but not like this," said the 43-year-old Melendez. Around the U.S., many Puerto Ricans are similarly adrift in hotels because of the Sept. 20 hurricane. Maria destroyed between 70,000 and 75,000 homes and damaged an additional 300,000, said Leticia Jover, a spokeswoman for Puerto Rico's Housing Department. After the hurricane, Melendez and her family were forced to sleep for more than three weeks in their garage because of flooding and sewage that entered the home.

Source: ABC News January 29, 2018 04:52 UTC