Fiona strengthened into a hurricane Sunday as it bore down on Puerto Rico, where it had already left hundreds of thousands without power and threatened to dump potentially “historic” levels of rain.
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Fiona was centered 25 miles southwest of Ponce, Puerto Rico, on Sunday morning. It had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph and was moving west-northwest at 8 mph . He said the atmosphere was gloomy at the supermarket as he and others stocked up before the storm hit.The storm was forecast to pummel cities and towns along Puerto Rico's southern coast that have not yet fully recovered from a string of strong earthquakes that hit the region starting in late 2019.
Puerto Rico's power grid was razed by Hurricane Maria and remains frail, with reconstruction starting only recently. Outages are a daily occurrence. “What we've done is prepared ourselves to depend as little as possible on the central government,” he said. “What worries me most is the rain,” said forecaster Ernesto Morales with the National Weather Service in San Juan.
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