September 20. 6:15 am It is the official time when Hurricane Maria, category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, enters through Yabucoa and hits Puerto Rico. It crosses the entire island with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour that start, wallow and bite everything in its path.

The hurricane brings with it torrential rains that discharge on the ground up to 40 inches of water. The Grande de Loíza, Grande de Manatí and Grande de Arecibo rivers, as well as La Plata, between Comerío and Bayamón; Cibuco in Corozal; Holy Spirit in Rio Grande; El Guayama, El Piedras and Puerto Nuevo overflow and cause floods in almost 78 municipalities, causing terror, anguish and devastation.

The brutal winds and their gusts of up to 200 miles per hour swallow trees, bend traffic lights, fracture towers of light, remove roofs, what they find. María is a glass crushing machine. Shake the palms as if they were toys. Thousands break. Raise a furious sea with waves up to 25 feet high. You eat the beach and throw tons of sand on the most touristy streets of the island.

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María’s anger does not rest on her way around the island. Diagonally, it hoists its hurricane winds on Maunabo, San Lorenzo, Caguas, Cidra, Aguas Buenas, Comerío, Naranjito, Corozal, Vega Alta and Vega Baja. He is angry with Manatí, Barceloneta and Florida. Squeeze Arecibo and slam the door between Hatillo and Camuy.

El Yunque, the only rain forest in the US National Parks system , and its thousands of native plants, including 88 considered rare and 23 unique, surrender to the onslaught of Mary.

The same happens with the Botanical Garden of Caguas, one of the most beautiful in the Caribbean. It is scorched earth. Nothing remains.

At 9 am it sweeps with San Juan, the capital. The historic center is desolate . The catastrophe accelerates. Hardly 14 days have passed since hurricane Irma, of category 5, hit Isla del Encanto. Paradise becomes hell. Governor Ricardo Rosselló had already warned: “It may be the worst atmospheric event in a century in Puerto Rico.” Is right.

In La Perla, the most famous community on the island outside, the roofs collapse. The houses give way.

That happened to the house of Luis Santiago, one of the residents of the base of the community, located on the sea. The before and after of your house is impressive.

“The step was too devastating. The house left. It is no longer useful, “says Luis.

In the northeast, the Fajardo river has left its channel and is about to flood the urban area and the mayor’s office. In Marina Puerto del Rey, the boats are left spinning; some, totally sunken. The mayor, Aníbal Meléndez, would declare later: “I had never seen my city so shattered”.

In Morovis and Orocovis , on the center of the island, the neighbors who have taken refuge in cement houses see how their own houses, made of wood, are removed from the hillsides by the jaws of Mary. In the Mountain , one of the regions most affected by the hurricane, the landslides swallow entire neighborhoods.

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