“We are always the forgotten ones — no help gets here,” said Jessica Ramos Sotero as she stood in line under a blazing sun at one of the only three bakeries in the town of Guayanilla that were open. “Please, let people know what is happening here.”
Customers were being allowed into the bakery five at a time, and were limited to buying no more than two pounds of bread and a small bag of ice. A nearby supermarket, where there also was a line, was limiting customers to purchases of five items each.
In some parts of the southwestern coastal city of Ponce, the lights were back on.
Xiomara Cedeño, 34, said the electricity at her house went out for about a day after the first of the strong tremors, which came late on Dec. 28. A number of lesser aftershocks continued to shake the island after that, followed by stronger ones on Monday and Tuesday.
Monday’s quake, which registered 5.8 magnitude, destroyed a beloved rock formation known as the Punta Ventana in Guayanilla. One death was attributed to that quake.
The ground continued to shake on Wednesday, with at least 10 recorded tremors of 2.5 magnitude or greater, according to the United States Geological Survey.
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