BOSTON — As Hurricane Irma bears down on Puerto Rico, residents have been rushing out to buy supplies while reaching out to family and friends in the United States.
Anastasia Correa lives in Boston’s South End, but she’s worried about her family back home on the island.
“This is really scary for the people in Puerto Rico. Very, very scary,” she said.
The Boston neighborhood has a large Puerto Rican community.
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“We spoke to our uncle today, they have everything boarded up,” Irma Amaro told Boston 25 News reporter John Monahan.
The powerful Category 5 storm is monstrous when seen from satellite images and pilots are clocking Irma’s winds at 185 mph.
Angel Lopez lived in Puerto Rico in 1998 when Hurricane George hit at Category 3. He says many people learned from that storm and are preparing.
“Scary, scary. It sounds like a train coming in nonstop, it’s very scary,” he said.
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