Adriana Barrios’s parents opened their pharmacy about an hour’s drive west of Puerto Rico’s capital San Juan 30 years ago.

“You can see around here everything is full of mud and the appliances are pretty much gone, medicine, everything,” Barrios said.

The store is a staple the town’s people in Toa Baja depend upon. On Tuesday, just as the skies cleared from the remnants of Hurricane Fiona, customers, friends and neighbors came to clean up the mess, pitching in to remove debris and ruined merchandise.

Now, the family is depending upon the town for help.

This is the second time the family has had to rebuild.

When Adriana was a teenager, Hurricane Maria devastated her native Puerto Rico in 2017. Then, it was wind and rain; this time: flood waters.

Maria was a category five hurricane and the damage was the same or even worse in some parts of Puerto Rico. So the government really needs to step it up and it really needs to do what it is supposed to do it making channels for the river to flow, rather than flowing into the streets and the homes.

Now in her twenties, Adriana also wants accountability in the distribution of federal aid and the donations pouring in from New York and other places, saying she’s already seeing the workings of an inefficient government.

“Just taking the funds that are being given by kind-hearted people that are trying to help, because they’re pocketing the money instead of giving it to people that need it,” Barrios said.

As of Tuesday, night utility company Luma said 20% of households in Puerto Rico had regained power, with Gov. Pedro Pierlusi announcing that a large portion of the population in the dark would see service restored Wednesday.