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    Hurricane Maria downgraded to Category 2, but damage to Puerto Rico is severe

    by By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times Sep 20, 2017 5 minutes

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Maria left a historic trail of destruction across Puerto Rico on Wednesday, its powerful winds carving holes in the walls of 300-year-old homes, flooding neighborhoods, sucking metal roofs off buildings, downing 100-year-old trees and leaving the entire island without power.

    In the capital of San Juan, volunteers sprang into action, assisting stranded drivers, cutting and removing downed limbs to clear the roads. Looters also took advantage of the chaos following the storm to break into furniture stores and gas stations, running past a San Juan police car with sofas and chairs. The police car did not appear to stop.

    Maria made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane packing 155-mph winds - just 2 mph short of Category 5 status - near the southern city of Yabucoa. But by Wednesday afternoon, the storm had been

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