You can still hear the salsa music, the car horns on crowded roads, the silent Ds that breeze through the Puerto Rican dialect. But you have to listen closely.
For months, the sounds of the Caribbean have been engulfed by the rattling roar of generators.
Almost four months after Hurricane Maria pummeled the island, about half of its residents do not have electricity, and most of the rest get power via boxy electric generators on wheels. Alone, one sounds like a giant lawnmower. A city full of them is a postapocalyptic whir. And as long as you can hear them, you can smell the diesel they burn.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Fight-to-Rebuild-a-Ravaged/242160