WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Palm Beach County woman said she was in Puerto Rico longer than she expected after going to the island to prepare her vacation home for the peak of hurricane season.

Hurricane Fiona disrupted those plans.

“This is where I live in the town of Camuy. Where Fiona hit is here,” said Salesia Smith-Gordon, as she pointed to a map.

Smith-Gordon is an attorney in West Palm Beach. She loves her vacation home in Puerto Rico and considers it her home away from home.

“I was down at the beach feeling the water, and it changed. You could feel something changed and all of a sudden power flickered,” she said. “We were getting such force of rain and water intrusion, though we had all hurricane glass and windows.”

Smith-Gordon vividly recalled the moments during the storm.

“Power went out. We had power until the afternoon, but then it went out,” she said.

She tried to get in touch with her friends to see if they weathered the storm.