"Puerto Rico was hit by an atomic bomb of nature."

[highplainsdem]

Tweet from journalist Julio Ricardo Varela, copying a message from a friend of his on Facebook, and asking people to retweet:

Link to tweet

Got this from a Facebook friend, & it is with a heavy heart to admit that the worse is still yet to come in #PuertoRico. Please RT.

Full text of the FB post in the images below:

[malaise]

1. That's the truth

It's beyond devastation

[highplainsdem]

2. I'm afraid there are going to be many more deaths.

Just the heat will be a tremendous problem with the power out. I was just reading on Weather Underground that the forecast for the next ten days is for the heat index to be near or above 100 degrees each day.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/more-havoc-category-3-maria-plows-northward

[malaise]

3. Same is true for Dominica

One of friends says to expect five times the original number.

In both islands the absence of electricity means lot of hospital equipment isn't working so folks who survived the hurricane won't get treatment.

Add to that the robberies that are yet to come because hungry and 'no light' are a bad mixture

[defacto7]

4. I have so little to say, feeling so much saddness.

Some people concoct their apocalyptic visions. These people are living the real thing.