It wasn’t Hurricane Maria’s winds and rain, but the lack of infrastructure following the storm that drove Arelys Gomez, her husband, three kids and grandparents out of Puerto Rico.
“We came to start a new life, a better life,” said Gomez of their decision to move to the Tampa Bay area.
With the help of FEMA and a local organization called Somos Puerto Rico, the family spent two months in a hotel before finally moving into a new apartment.
We got a place with four bedrooms for our family of seven now. We buy stuff like beds and stuff for the kids,” said Gomez, “We were happy.”
But in a flash, the life they’d been working to rebuild was gone. Continue Reading>>
