SALINAS, Puerto Rico — In Puerto Rico, perhaps no community saw more devastation from Hurricane Fiona than Salinas, a small city on the island's southern coast. More than 30 inches of rain inundated the area, causing a river to flood, and all but wiping out an entire neighborhood, Villa Esperanza. It's a quiet community nestled between the beach and a river, Rio Nigua.
When Hurricane Fiona hit Sunday, Diana Diaz says, things changed dramatically. "The water just kept rising and rising and rising," she says. "It went up about four feet." Only about an inch of water got into her home, mostly leaving her with a mess. But she says she was blessed. Many other homes were totally flooded, some destroyed.
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