San Juan, Puerto Rico

Catastrophic hurricane: Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico this week as the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory in nearly a century. Winds of up to 155 mph turned metal roofs and uprooted trees into lethal projectiles, slamming them into cars and buildings. “We have not experienced an event of this magnitude in our modern history,” said Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. Authorities expected the storm to heavily damage the island’s crumbling power system. Maria had already flattened much of the island nation of Dominica. “So far,” Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said, “we have lost all what money can buy.” The Caribbean region was still digging out from Hurricane Irma, which devastated Barbuda and St. Thomas two weeks ago.