We knew it could get worse, but we didn’t dare imagine how much. President Trump, meanwhile, threatened war with Iran, and Australia’s wildfires raged. I thought I saw a fiery meteor streak overhead - was I hallucinating? - but Twitter validated my apocalyptic vision. The government hoarded an enormous warehouse-full of emergency supplies, forcing displaced survivors to spend money they didn’t have at Walmart. The archipelago, still half-broken from the brutal assault of Hurricane Maria several years before, suffered through hundreds of unpredictable tremors - an “earthquake swarm” that left people homeless across the island’s southern region and knocked out power for the rest of us. January had been too punishing we needed a fresh start. All around Puerto Rico, people were celebrating a second New Year. 31, 2020, I could hear fireworks from my friend’s terrace in Santurce.
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