The island is observing the anniversary of Hurricane Maria with a focus on preparedness and community resilience, as the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season enters its final weeks.
The island is observing the anniversary of Hurricane Maria with a focus on preparedness and community resilience, as the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season enters its final weeks.
Resilience is a lovely word for a bill nobody paid. Maria’s damage was pegged at 226 percent of GDP — more than two years of everything the island produced, gone in a night. Anniversary panels later, the same villages still wait on the same seawalls. “Preparedness” is what we call it when the money goes elsewhere. The season has weeks left. So does our patience.