“My husband and I were inside of the home when it happened. It started off as just water coming into the house, and my husband was trying to empty it with a bucket to try to stop it from taking over,” Kelene Jusino told The Daily Beast.
The first thing Kelene Jusino thought about as water creeped into her house on Sunday night was her unborn daughter.
Jusino said that as the then-Category 1 storm continued to barrel though the tiny island, battering her home with heavy rains and winds, her 28-year-old husband was “trying to run through the house grabbing everything he could to put it on higher ground in an attempt to salvage some of them.” Eventually, they were forced to leave their home in the middle of the night “with only the clothes on our backs and our IDs, not knowing what we would come back to.
to declare a public health emergency on the island. That declaration comes after Biden authorized FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate relief efforts. . They will work alongside other emergency responders “to determine what, if any, additional federal public health and medical resources can be brought to bear to aid the territory in responding to the hurricane.”Biden is expected to be briefed remotely Thursday afternoon by Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi on the restoration situation on the island.
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