Enabling Resilience for the Days and Weeks and Months After the Storm

Enabling Resilience for the Days and Weeks and Months After the Storm

Enabling Resilience for the Days and Weeks and Months After the Storm Livability in Action

Enabling Resilience for the Days and Weeks and Months After the Storm

For residents of the U S Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico readiness and relationships were keys to survival

America has 50 states, but . That's because we also serve the residents of Washington, D.C., as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
In September 2017, two massive hurricanes — Irma and then Maria — devastated the Caribbean islands. and the juggled caring for themselves and their own families with meeting the desperate needs of local AARP members — as well as nonmembers of all ages. The following articles, written for the 2018 edition of the AARP series , are first-person accounts from the two AARP state directors who prepared for, lived through and have been working to help their communities recover from a season of unprecedented storms. Image from Google Maps Puerto Rico (left) and the Virgin Islands (right) were directly in the paths of hurricanes Irma and Maria. Published June 2018

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