BREAKING NEWS:Fiona's floods devastated their homes. These residents are ready to start over
Accessibility links Skip to main content Keyboard shortcuts for audio player Open Navigation Menu NATIONAL Fiona's floods devastated their homes. These residents are ready to start over September 24, 2022 9:16 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday GREG ALLEN Twitter The coastal communities of Salinas near the Rio Nigua experienced massive flooding during Hurricane Fiona. Gabriella N. Báez for NPR SALINAS, Puerto Rico — In Puerto Rico, perhaps no community saw more devastation from Hurricane Fiona than Salinas, a small city on the island's southern coast. More than 30 inches of rain inundated the area, causing a river to flood, and all but wiping out an entire neighborhood, Villa Esperanza. It's a quiet community nestled between the beach and a river, Rio Nigua. When Hurricane Fiona hit Sunday, Diana Diaz says, things changed dramatically. "The water just kept rising and rising and rising," she says. "It went up about four feet." Only about an inch