When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017, Emory physician Dr. Carla Haack had no way of knowing whether her parents were alive or dead.
Their home was in Cidra, a town in the central part of the island, where phone service was knocked out and roads were blocked by fallen trees and other debris.
A few days after the monster storm made landfall, Haack saw a photo from that town and how a concrete pole “was snapped in two like a twig. Then I freaked out.’’ Her parents’ home was made of concrete.
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