Dark desperate life without power in Puerto Rico
Maria Rivera
Down the hill  past the town's plaza and up another hill   50-year-old Maria Rivera  watches  her  husband and two friends remove broken furniture and soggy sheets from their home  which was destroyed by the storm. It is 2 p.m.  and the three men toss the debris into a truck one of them owns. City officials never showed up to clear the debris  and crews with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency did not come until this month to assess the damage.
Tears moisten  Rivera 's eyes as  she  gazes at what remains of the home where  she  lived for 19 years with  her  husband and three children.
"I haven't been able to assimilate everything that has happened "  she  says  adding that  she  spends most of the day bracing for darkness. "When night falls  you start growing anxious  depressed. Everything has changed ... Sometimes I go to places that have power and I tell my husband  'I don't want to go back.'"
By 4 p.m.  some generators in  Rivera 's neighborhood start rumbling as darkness approaches on the shortest day of the year. A teenager bounces a basketball and takes a couple of shots on a court before heading home  while several men wrap up reconstruction efforts at a roofless home that federal crews fitted with a blue tarp just two weeks ago.
Down the hill  past the town's plaza and up  [TGT] watches   [TGT]   husband and two friends remove broken furniture and soggy sheets from their home  which was destroyed by the storm. It is 2 p.m.  and the three men toss the debris into a truck one of them owns. City officials never showed up to clear the debris  and crews with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency did not come until this month to assess the damage.
Tears moisten   [TGT]  's eyes as  she  gazes at what remains of the home where  she  lived for 19 years with  her  husband and three children.
"I haven't been able to assimilate everything that has happened "  she  says  adding that  she  spends most of the day bracing for darkness. "When night falls  you start growing anxious  depressed. Everything has changed ... Sometimes I go to places that have power and I tell my husband  'I don't want to go back.'"
By 4 p.m.  some generators in   [TGT]  's neighborhood start rumbling as darkness approaches on the shortest day of the year. A teenager bounces a basketball and takes a couple of shots on a court before heading home  while several men wrap up reconstruction efforts at a roofless home that federal crews fitted with a blue tarp just two weeks ago.