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Posted: 2018-09-19T09:45:00Z | Updated: 2018-09-20T21:35:14Z

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico When asked what she remembered about Hurricane Maria, 10-year-old Yermiletsy Quionez Rosado immediately began to imitate the high-pitch whistle of the storms 155 mph winds.

We thought the wind was going take the house. We were very scared, she told HuffPost in late July, her eyes focused on a toy she was restlessly turning in her hands.

But it wasnt memories of the hurricane that hit Puerto Rico last September or her familys nearly four months without power or water afterward that made Yermiletsy anxious just weeks before the start of the new school year. It was knowing she would soon begin fifth grade at a new school, Escuela Ins Mara Mendoza.

I dont know anyone at the school I will be going to and that bothers me, she said. Im nervous because the school is very big and I could get lost.