BALTIMORE — Janet Arce arrived at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport before 5 a.m. last Thursday. She wore rain boots and carted a pile of suitcases full of donations for a humanitarian trip to Puerto Rico. “I’m going to be…
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UMD student waits over a week to hear from family in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria
University of Maryland sophomore Gabriela Anglada was hundreds of miles away from her home of San Juan, Puerto Rico when Hurricane Maria hit. After speaking to her family that night, she could not reach them for 10 days. Now, Anglada is busy raising money to help with the Puerto Rico relief effort.
Marylanders struggling to contact family and friends in Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON — The destruction left after Hurricane Maria has Puerto Ricans in Maryland and the continental United States feeling paralyzed because they cannot reach many family and friends on the devastated island. The last message Edmundo Torres, of Gaithersburg, Maryland,…