People fill containers with water from a tank truck at an area hit by Hurricane Maria in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, Sept. 26, 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

Julia Davila, who stayed in a shelter at City Hall during storm, returns to her La Perla neighborhood in Old San Juan to view the damage. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

Ysamar Figueroa, carrying her son Saniel, looks at the damage in the neighborhood after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria, in Canovanas, Puerto Rico.  (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

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A man walks past a damaged church with U.S. and Puerto Rico flags in Carolina, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

Hurricane Maria’s path of destruction in a rural neighborhood in Hayales De Coamo, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press/Newscom)

Seven-year-old Karlian Mercado lies on the part of her destroyed home that used to be her bedroom. (Photo: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press/Newscom)

A man carries a container filled with water on the street in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

The city of Hayales De Coamo, Puerto Rico, suffers gas and water shortages, lack of phone service, internet, and accurate news after Hurricane Maria lashed the island. (Photo: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press/Newscom)

Carmen Marrero rests while she cleans debris from her house in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

Water damage isn’t the only destruction Hurricane Maria left in people’s homes. Toa Baja residents clean mud from their flooded house. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

Manuel Torres weathered the hurricane inside his Old San Juan home because he said it was not easy in the shelter for his 87-year-old mother who had had three heart attacks and a stroke last year. After the storm passed, she was taken to a hospital feeling ill from sweltering heat and lack of drinking water. (Photo: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press/Newscom)

Yamary Morales looks at the damage at a neighbor’s house in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

Marks of the flood water level are seen on the walls of a house Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

Residents form lines by car and by foot as they wait for several hours for gas in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Carl Juste/TNS/Newscom)

Residents of the Zapateria Pizarro area of the oceanside town of Loiza begin to clean up after Hurricane Maria rolled through the island. (Photo: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press/Newscom)

Irma Torres walks out from what is left of her home in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

People stay on the roof of a damaged house in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Newscom)

San Juan residents deal with navigating high water as many streets remain flooded and blocked by fallen power lines, trees, and debris. (Photo: Carl Juste/ZUMA Press/Newscom)

Ismael Freytes, 69, cleans mud from his family home where water reached over 5 feet high during the hurricane. He lost everything. (Photo: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press/Newscom)

Employees clean a gas station store covered in mud in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press/Newscom)

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