Karen Caraballo's living room floor was packed Friday, as she scrambled to fit clothing, batteries and lots of food into three blue suitcases, arranged from the smallest to the largest. Caraballo is bringing much-needed supplies to family recovering from Hurricane Maria. Her flight to Puerto Rico is tomorrow.

Caraballo will be staying with her sister, Kenia Caraballo, and her family, including two young nephews, Alejandro, 5, and Pedro, 14, for about a week. She's convinced her sister to let her bring her nephews back to Brooklyn, where they can be safe and comfortable. 

Kenia's house in Toa Alta, on Puerto Rico's northern coast, suffered minor damage in the Hurricane, but she told her sister other houses lost roofs, windows, and doors. Kenia still has no electricity or gas. Their brother fared worse: his house, 40 minutes away in Toa Abaja, was flooded. He's been sleeping on the roof. 

"There is no food, people still have to make lines of, you know, hours," Caraballo said. "One of my family members two days ago had to make a line for 12 hours to get gas, OK? Five hours to get ice."

Caraballo had mixed emotions about her trip. She said she is looking forward to seeing her family, but she's also afraid of the devastation she'll find in the place she grew up.

"I'm also scared," she said, "because when I return I know that what I'm going to see is not what I saw when I was there this summer...it just breaks my heart."