(Bloomberg) -- A month after Hurricane Maria battered this mountainousstretch of central Puerto Rico, recovery remained elusive alongHighway 152, where 82-year-old Carmen Diaz Lopez lives alone in ahome that’s one landslide away from plummeting into the muddy creekbelow.
Without electricity, and without family members to care for her,she’s become dependent on the companionship of a few neighbors whostop by periodically. But a collapsed bridge has made itchallenging to even communicate with her friend across the creek,so she’s lived for the most part in solitude, passing theelectricity-less days singing “Ave Maria” and classic Los Panchossongs to herself, lighting candles each night so she can find thebathroom.
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