Couple defy Hurricane Maria on roof to save pets - lots of them

Sandra Harasimowicz (R) talks to her husband Gary Rosario while he carries one of their dogs on the roof of a neighbor's house after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Yauco, Puerto Rico, September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

YAUCO, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Hurricane Maria battered this quiet Puerto Rican outpost and covered it with mud, but it couldn't separate Sandra Harasimowicz from her beloved pets.

She and her husband Gary Rosario said they clung to the side of a house for hours last week to save their seven dogs from a hurricane that reduced their picturesque neighbourhood in Puerto Rico to a desolate mud pit.