Whatever didn’t blow away was stolen ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands––“It is with a very heavy heart that we were forced to weld the door to our clinic closed today,” the St. Croix Animal Welfare Center posted to Facebook on September 28, 2017. Even before Hurricane Maria crushed the U.S., Dutch, and British Virgin Islands, […]
Hurricane Maria: first reports about animal aid from Puerto Rico
Destroyed communication infrastructure left rescuers incommunicado SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico––“Brutal winds left streets in the historic Old Town of the Puerto Rican capital, San Juan, strewn with rubble––collapsed balconies, fallen lamp posts, and dead birds, reported Dave Graham and Robin Respaut of Reuters the morning after Hurricane Maria ripped across the length of Puerto […]