They'd had warning of the hurricane and escaped to safety in the middle of the night. They abandoned their wrecked home and moved to temporary shelter. Icsa misses school most of all. That was flooded also. All our desks and study guides were destroyed.
Dead animals lie around it now.
Icsa's family now faces the uphill task of rebuilding their home. For a single-parent family whose teenage children must work to make ends meet, the prospect of ever making good their losses is daunting. The Flores are not the only ones. The whole country is reeling. More than 30 years of progress was reversed in one week.