Christy Thompson knows her son Ryan is alive and safe — and now she’s been able to talk to him.
Ryan Thompson, 24, is among the hundreds of displaced Ross University School of Medicine students whose campus took a direct blow from Hurricane Maria on the small Caribbean island of Dominica Monday.
The Category 5 storm has left the island in shambles, “worse than a war zone,” Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit told NBC news. The death toll as of Friday in Dominica was 15.