For the family and friends of Enrique Hernandez, life as they know it could soon be washed away.
Hernandez, the Dodgers’ utility player, lives in Puerto Rico. Hurricane Irma is expected to strike there Wednesday, barreling into the island with the force of the most powerful storm recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.
Residents there have been told to prepare for a worst-case scenario.
“That could be three to four months without power,” Hernandez said. “It’s a really scary situation. I’m just really helpless right now.”
Hernandez said his father’s parents are too old to get on a plane and fly to safety, so they’ll ride out the storm with his parents in a neighborhood he said was a “two-minute drive” from the coast.