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...island is normally swept by tradewinds from the northeast, but the torrential rains pounding Puerto Rico early last week came from the southeast, borne by a tropical wave that stalled and refused to move along. In three days, up to 15 in. of water spilled from the skies. In the hillside barrio of Mameyes, an impoverished community of more than 1,500 residents above the south-coast industrial city of Ponce (pop. 250,000), the downpour caused little of the flooding that afflicted lower-lying areas of the island. The 30 degrees slope on which Mameyes' wood and corrugated...
...soon as the rains stopped, the Puerto Rican sun quickly baked the gooey clay rock-hard. By week's end only 38 bodies had been recovered. But Ponce Mayor Jose Dapena predicted that the death toll could eventually rise to 500. That would rank not only as Puerto Rico's worst single disaster in this century but as the most destructive landslide in U.S. history...
...killer rains claimed lives elsewhere in Puerto Rico's south, which bore the brunt of their fury. Flooding creeks and a collapsed wall caused 13 deaths in the El Tuque section of Ponce, and near...
...town of Coamo, at least three automobiles plunged from a fallen bridge, killing eight. Nineteen bodies were pulled from the swollen Paso Seco River near the town of Santa Isabel, where another bridge gave way at the height of the deluge. Ironically, shortly after the weather front left Puerto Rico and gained sufficient new force to be classified as a tropical storm, Isabel was the name routinely assigned to it by the World Meteorological Organization. Isabel came close to gaining hurricane status as it approached the Florida coastline, but then rapidly dwindled in force...
Cooper Labs, the Palo Alto firm that acquired the Pinkham in 1969, continues to market the compound in Puerto Rico through Cooper Vision Pharmaceuticals...