1、Excerpt from Supply Chain Resilience and the 2017 Hurricane Season|1 Retail Resilience in Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria made landfall just south of Yabucoa,Puerto Rico,at dawn on Wednesday,September 20,2017.It was a strong Category 4 storm with winds exceeding 150 miles per hour.With Thursdays dawn Jo
2、se Perales,manager of Ralphs Food Warehouse,made it through flood and debris to check the store.His typically 20-minute drive took over 40.In several places the stores roof was gone.He guessed that 30 percent of his inventory had been ruined by rain.But the diesel generators had kicked in as intende
3、d.By early Wednesday afternoon,the Mi Gente grocery,2,000 feet high in the mountains of Naranjito and Comerio,south of San Juan,was reeling from hot wind and rain.The owner,Rene Lopez,had locked up on Tuesday as word spread that landslides had already closed Route 167 along the Rio de la Plata into
4、San Juan.Sometime after he left,the wireless tower connecting the ATM and credit card machine to the outside world fell hard.Eventually the store went dark.It would not be reconnected to the grid for another six months.The store stayed locked through that first day and night.Both Ralphs and Mi Gente
