10 Red Roof Inn Connecticut
Merely Torres-Garcia sat in the second-ground association allowance at a metropolis Hartford Red Roof Inn, and she became arranged up — reducing shirts, a zip-up hoodie, a jacket, and gloves. She additionally had on a brace of Air Jordans which she stated is article she wouldn’t abrasion in Puerto Rico.
Lea esta historia en español. / Read this adventure in Spanish.
“I don’t use that (sneakers),” Torres-Garcia stated. “And now I receive to do it.”
Even admitting she hates the bloodless, Torres Garcia is blessed to accord with it for her youngsters. They larboard Puerto Rico afterwards Blow Maria’s hurricane billow wiped out abundant of their aboriginal ground.
“I [didn’t] be given clothes,” Torres-Garcia said. “I [didn’t] be given cheese. We [had]—how do you say “Sargaso” in English? Seaweed. I [had] seaweed significant of my house.”
So Merely, her husband, her two youngsters, and 4 others took lodging on the additional ground, area her mother lived.
“We [didn’t] be given not anything,” Torres-Garcia said. “And once more my youngsters said ‘mom, we’re gonna die here. We’re gonna die here. What are we gonna do?’”
FEMA located her at the auberge in Hartford. In October, the federal bureau alien its “Transitional Sheltering Assistance” affairs to dwelling house a abridgement of accommodation for the ones artifice Puerto Rico for the continental United States. At atomic seven families have been relocated to Connecticut due to the program.
But aback we aboriginal met, Torres-Garcia changed into afraid that afterwards January thirteen, aback FEMA’s TSA affairs became set to run out, her ancestors might be larboard out of the lodge– with no homestead overseas to head.
“It’s no longer by myself me and my husband,” Torres-Garcia stated. “I receive two children. In January, I don’t apperceive what I’m hobby to mention if FEMA [doesn’t] make bigger this time. I don’t apperceive what I’m activity to say to my youngsters.”
A FEMA agent instructed WNPR that no longer all conditions accustomed the “disaster” tag will account from the TSA software. It’s as much as the governor of that accompaniment or vicinity to ask. It’s additionally as much as him or her to invite for the borderline to be prolonged.
“We abide to assignment with the government of Puerto Rico to appraise the desires of adversity survivors,” the agent said.
Iliana Santana, 28, turned into in her without a doubt balmy allowance on the inn’s 6th ground.
“She stated she became absolute algid this morning so she angry on the heat,” stated Carmen Cotto, who changed into allowance translate.
Right now, Santana sleeps in a single bed while her two accouchement beddy-bye inside the other. She’s assured her bedmate to accompany them on the give up of the month. Aback Santana aboriginal arrived, she slept with the youngsters on a deserted air mattress at a pal’s accommodation in Meriden. She said she acquainted unwelcomed and larboard afterwards one night time. Afore she got the allowance in Hartford, she changed into atrocious for housing.
“When I came actuality I alleged 2-1-1 and that they referred me to a shelter,” Santana said via Cotto, the translator. “I visited the accommodation and they told me that they didn’t receive amplitude due to the fact they’d 60 our bodies cat-and-mouse in advanced of us. Again they informed me that if I didn’t receive a plan in home for my kids to interrupt about that night, they’d alarm DCF to booty my children abroad from me.”
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