It's Been Six Months

Today, Explained

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Today is the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Maria, one of the worst natural disasters in American history. But Puerto Rico remains without fully-restored power or an exact idea of how many people died because of the storm. Latino USA’s Julio Ricardo Varela looks at the recovery and explains the real reason it’s taking so long. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.8	This is today explained, I'm Sean Ramosferm.
0:32.8	Today is a six month anniversary of Hurricane Maria,
0:42.8	the category four storm that essentially devastated Puerto Rico,
0:48.1	put it back into the 19th century.
0:50.4	The strongest storm in this island has
0:52.0	faced in nearly a century.
0:53.5	The island's already fragile infrastructure
0:55.8	decimated.
0:56.6	The Puerto Rico and the San Juan that we knew yesterday
0:59.0	is no longer there.
1:00.4	Imagine a place where everything just shuts down.
1:06.0	This is Julio Ricardo Varela.
1:07.9	He works with Latino USA.
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