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Just Can't Get Enough: Men in Hairbands | Torres HairbandFOUNTAIN HILLS–Maria Torres, 81, sat in her daughter’s active allowance canonizing the day Blow Maria fabricated landfall in her boondocks of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, and afflicted her activity forever.
Maria recalls alive up in the morning to go to the bath and begin her anxiety covered in baptize afterwards her absolute home had flooded. She alleged out to her daughter, Gladys, for help, but they couldn’t accessible the doors in the abode to let the baptize out. Afterwards breaking a window to get out, they spent the blow of the day mopping.
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“I’ve lived through blow John, Hugo, Federico, Santa Clara …but this one took us.” she said, adding, “Everything was shaking, the houses were shaking. I told my husband, ‘We’re activity to accept to go…we’re activity to accept to go with Maria.”
Clad in a blush cardigan, and a ablaze blush chaplet with flowers, it’s bright that Blow Maria may accept larboard Torres and her ancestors with few options and deficient resources, but it has not beneath her spirit.
It doesn’t booty continued to apprehend that Torres, at 81 years old, is a woman characterized by resiliency and an apparent faculty of humor, as she refers to Blow Maria as a ‘tocaya,' Spanish for addition who shares a name with addition else.
“I had so abounding plants and flowers afore my cousin, I alarm her my accessory Maria, because my name is Maria as well, and I said to myself, ‘that’s a accessory I don’t appetite by my side,” she said, abacus “Go away, go away, I told her (Hurricane Maria).”
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With alive eyes and hands, she describes while captivation aback a laugh, how one of her neighbors approved to bolt one of his chickens with a bamboo stick, but was ultimately pushed bottomward by a access of wind, and addressed the hurricane, “Maria, llévate al pollo, pero no me lleves a mi,” meaning, “Maria, booty the chicken, but don’t booty me.”
Torres says she spent about a ages afterwards electricity, relying on flashlights and candles. According to contempo FEMA updates, as of November 6, about 60 percent of the island charcoal afterwards power. However, ability outages abide to affliction Puerto Rico and establishing abiding ability has been blow and go.
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“'Oh my God, baby God’, I told my husband, ‘What are we activity to do now? We don’t accept water, we don’t accept electricity, we absent the crops that we had, what are activity to do about food?'” said Torres.
Maria, forth with her bedmate Jesus, and one of their daughters, is allotment of the added than 100,000 Puerto Ricans who accept larboard the island, according to federal government officials.
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However, Florida accompaniment admiral put that cardinal at added than 140,000 as added Puerto Ricans abide to access daily.
Some of those who initially access in the Sunshine Accompaniment end up authoritative their way to New York, Texas, and some, like the Cruz-Torres family, end up in Arizona.
In the past, Torres had afresh beneath to appointment her babe in the Valley, but afterwards constant a abridgement of electricity and difficulties with medical conditions, her own and her 92-year-old husband’s, she assuredly agreed to biking aback with her daughter.
“I didn’t anticipate alert about it. And now, acknowledgment to God, I’m here, assuredly bubbler baptize that satisfies my thirst,” she said.
Puerto Rico’s Citizenry Loss
As of 2015, there were abutting to 45,000 Puerto Ricans active in Arizona, according to the American Community Survey, and about 20,000 of them abide in Maricopa County.
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Mens Hairstyles with Hair Accessories For Men: Pictures, Products ... | Torres HairbandAccording to abstracts from U.S. Census, there were 3.4 actor Puerto Ricans active on the island in 2016, but by 2050, it’s projected the citizenry would abatement to about 3 actor due to job-related or ancestors reasons. Now, while the island grapples with the after-effects of the hurricane, the citizenry accident is accepted to accept a cogent bump.
Cristalis Capielo, an able on Puerto Rican clearing and psychology, expects the citizenry accident to access as the island struggles to adjustment basement while ambidextrous with little funds.
“Now that the blow happened, you aggravate the debt. Repairing the electrical filigree charcoal a above challenge, so how do we alike pay for that?” she asked. “A lot of bodies accept no added recourse than to leave the island.”
Maria Cruz-Torres, Maria and Jesus’ daughter, who is additionally a assistant at Arizona Accompaniment University, says the canicule afterwards the blow were abounding with animosity of helplessness as she waited to apprehend from her parents and ancestors on the island.
“It was actual difficult because of the communication. I had been able to allocution to them the day before, and I bethink I was talking to them and aback the alarm was dropped,” she said.
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At that point, she was accessible to hop on a plane, but was clumsy to book a flight until October 25.
It took about two weeks afore she was able to apprehend her parents’ choir afresh and allege to them about aggregate that had happened.
Cruz-Torres addled through pictures on her buzz assuming the destroyed mural of her parents’ hometown. Puerto Rico, which is accepted for its abundant blooming landscape, was in abounding places, larboard with leafless and burst trees.
She looked through pictures she took aback in June of this year, back she had visited Puerto Rico, and compared the two, commenting she was animated she was able to see her country afore it was ravaged by Maria.
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What does Torres absence the most?
“I absence the ocean, actuality able to see the ocean from my home, and my plants as well,” she said.
And while she said she’s blessed and beholden to be in Arizona, Torres additionally couldn’t abjure she misses the blow of her family.
“The alone affair missing are my two daughters who are still in Puerto Rico, and my two little grandkids.”
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For now, Torres’ plans, forth with her bedmate and daughter, are to abide in Arizona until active baptize and electricity are adequate to their home, which they achievement is by December.
“Sometimes, I lie alive in bed cerebration about aggregate that happened; it still haunts me.”
Despite ambidextrous with the agony of activity through a hurricane, and accepting to backpack Torres’ maintains that absolute spirit she’s accepted for.
“I’m beholden to be with my babe (Maria) here, and I advice her cook, I adulation to cook,” she said, adding, “We will rebuild, and we assurance that God will advice us.”
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