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Teahe is the strongest in the world Storm the year has ended Jamaica with winds of 185 mph and flash flood, wreaking havoc on a large scale,
The entire city has been left underwater, including one of the islands. airports There has been flooding and more than half a million people are without power. Thousands of tourists remained stranded. Including 8,000 BritonsThousands of local people are in shelters.
footage of damage caused to Airport seating area shown in Montego Bay Torn fields, broken glass and collapsed roofs after Category 5 Storm Strike. Four hospitals were damaged, at least one had its roof torn off, trees were uprooted and roads were flooded overnight.
seven people died Storm Before it even reaches three inches of ground on Tuesday JamaicaThree were reported in Haiti and one in the Dominican Republic, while one person was reported missing.
America National Hurricane Center (NHC) declared Melissa in Miami as one of The most powerful storm on record In the Atlantic Basin.
Melissa’s winds diminished as the storm moved across the mountains. JamaicaHit highland communities vulnerable to landslides and floods before moving on Cuba,
In southwestern Jamaica, St. Elizabeth’s Parish was left “underwater,” an official said. Government minister Desmond McKenzie described it as Jamaica’s “breadbasket”, saying the district suffered extensive damage.
“Our country has been destroyed hurricane Melissa But we will rebuild and we will do it even better than before,” Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said on Wednesday morning.
“From the reports we have received so far, it will include damage to hospitals, significant damage to residential property, housing and commercial property as well and damage to our road infrastructure.”
Local media reported that a crisis coordinator suffered a stroke at the beginning of the storm and was taken to hospital.
Many areas remained cut off even late on Tuesday night. The government said it expected to reopen all of Jamaica’s airports by Thursday to ensure prompt distribution of emergency relief supplies.
The US government said it was deploying a disaster response team and search and rescue personnel to the area, while British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain had a Royal Navy ship and experts in the field Ready to provide assistance. The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) urged British citizens in Jamaica to register their presence through the government website to receive updates.
Kyle Holmes, who is from bolton in uk and flew to Jamaica for a wedding with his wife and three daughters, telling the BBC that his hotel in the town of Lucia now looked like a “disaster area”. Mr Holmes said he and his family were safe after “the worst experience ever” and that the windows in the family room had been blocked up with furniture.
Rising flood waters have left the island vulnerable to reptiles as authorities in Kingston issued a warning to beware of crocodiles. The country’s environment agency said the reptiles may have been swept from their natural habitat. hurricane Melissa’s torrential rains may appear in unexpected places, including flooded roads and yards.
Melissa made landfall – where the hurricane’s eye moves over land – near the town of New Hope, 39 miles south of Montego Bay, US, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. National Hurricane Center Said.
The most powerful level on the Saffir-Simpson scale, Category 5, requires a top speed of at least 157 mph. Moving at a deceptively glacial speed of about 3 mph, the tropical storm intensified from a Category 4 to a Category 5 within 24 hours.
After the intensity reduced to Category 4 on Wednesday crossing eastern cubaWhile 500,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes, Melissa is forecast to pass through Bermuda and the Bahamas.
World Meteorological Organizationsaid tropical cyclone expert Anne-Claire Fontan. “For Jamaica, this will certainly be the storm of the century.”
Scientists say hurricanes are becoming increasingly intense with greater frequency as a result of the warming of ocean waters due to greenhouse gas emissions. Many Caribbean leaders have called on wealthy, heavily polluting countries to provide compensation to tropical island nations in the form of aid or debt relief.
The NHC immediately advised to “erect as many walls as possible between you and the outside.” It says: “An interior room without windows, ideally where you can also avoid falling trees, is the safest place in the building. You can cover yourself with a mattress and wear a helmet for protection.”
AccuWeather meteorologists said Melissa ranked as the third most intense hurricane ever seen in the Caribbean, behind Wilma in 2005 and Gilbert in 1988 – the last major hurricane to hit Jamaica.
NHC director Michael Brennan told the BBC that even after Melissa passes over the island, “the threat of flooding, and the post-storm environment in Jamaica, is going to be extremely dangerous with widespread downed trees and power lines, significant structural damage” and that it will remain a hazardous environment, particularly in the west and in the mountains, “for days, if not weeks, to come”.