First Harvey, then Irma. Now Maria is hitting Puerto Rico with a force “not seen in modern history” according to WaPo
It hit the island at 6:15 a.m. as a Category 4 hurricane with 155 mph winds — the first Category 4 storm to directly strike the island since 1932. By midmorning, Maria had fully engulfed the 100-mile-long island as winds snapped palm trees, peeled off rooftops, sent debris skidding across beaches and roads, and cut power to nearly the entire island.
On September 8, Mexico was rocked by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake, but another earthquake — 7.1 magnitude — which hit yesterday is proving more deadly, because its epicenter was very near to Mexico City. The death toll after Mexico’s massive earthquake has hit 225, according to a tweet early Wednesday from the official account of Luis Felipe Puente, National Coordinator of Civil Protection of the Ministry of the Interior.
- 71 were killed in Morelos
- 94 in Mexico City
- 43 in Puebla
- 12 in State of Mexico
- 4 in Guerrero
- 1 in Oaxaca
Many of the dead are schoolchildren where a school collapsed.
Horrific stuff.
It’s unsettling what the Earth is throwing around, and it’s made all the more unsettling by the impending non-natural disasters that we have made for ourselves.