Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami.
The territory has experienced the effects of Atlantic hurricanes, or storms that were once tropical or subtropical cyclones.
Hurricane-force winds drove this 10-foot (3 m) piece of
2x4 lumber
through a palm tree in Puerto Rico during the 1928 Okerchobee hurricane, known in Puerto Rico as the San Felipe II hurricane