{"id":61516,"date":"2024-07-04T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/hurricane-beryl-leaves-jamaican-homes-without-power\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T16:02:56","slug":"hurricane-beryl-leaves-jamaican-homes-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/hurricane-beryl-leaves-jamaican-homes-without-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Beryl leaves Jamaican homes without power"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds of thousands of homes in Jamaica remain without power in the wake of Hurricane Beryl.<\/p>\n

The category four storm \u2013 one of the most powerful to ever hit the country \u2013 swept along the island\u2019s southern coast on Wednesday night, bringing more than 12 hours of heavy rain.<\/p>\n

Officials and residents are assessing the damage after an island-wide curfew was lifted early on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Beryl, which has now weakened to a category three storm, is headed for Mexico and the Cayman Islands. It left a trail of devastation across the Caribbean, killing at least 10 people.<\/p>\n

St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Venezuela reported three deaths each, while one person died in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here in the capital, Kingston, while the winds were extremely strong, they weren\u2019t the hurricane gusts that were expected. But the hours of heavy rain are a real concern, especially on farmland where flooding has been reported.<\/p>\n

One resident of a rural farming community told the Reuters news agency: \u201cIt\u2019s terrible. Everything\u2019s gone. I\u2019m in my house and I\u2019m scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a disaster,\u201d said Amoy Wellington, who lives in the southern parish of St Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday night I was able to go outside briefly to move my car away from overhanging trees.<\/p>\n

A full-length mirror was lying next to the car \u2013 it had probably blown off someone\u2019s balcony, a reminder that unexpected objects suddenly become missiles in winds that strong.<\/p>\n

Jamaican energy provider JPS said that 65% \u2013 or about 400,000 of its customers \u2013 were without power on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

The hurricane has delivered \u201ca most devastating blow\u201d to parts of the island, said the MP for St Elizabeth South Western.<\/p>\n

Posting on X, Floyd Green said in his constituency \u201csignificant numbers of roofs [have been] lost, houses destroyed, trees uprooted, light poles downed, almost all roads are impassable.\u201d<\/p>\n

King Charles III, who is also monarch in several Caribbean nations, said on Thursday he was \u201cprofoundly saddened to learn of the dreadful destruction\u201d left by Hurricane Beryl.<\/p>\n

The UN has unlocked $4m (\u00a33.1m) from its emergency response fund to help the recovery in Jamaica, Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Andrew Holness thanked \u201cfirst responders, essential services, security forces and good Samaritans who have assisted others in this time of crisis\u201d on his X account.<\/p>\n

Beryl became the the earliest category five Atlantic hurricane in records going back around 100 years \u2013\u00a0thought to be as a result of warmer sea surface temperatures.<\/a><\/p>\n

The storm shocked meteorologists at how fast it intensified \u2013 taking just 42 hours to go from a tropical depression to a major hurricane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hundreds of thousands of homes in Jamaica remain without power in the wake of Hurricane Beryl. The category four storm \u2013 one of the most powerful to ever hit the country \u2013 swept along the island\u2019s southern coast on Wednesday night, bringing more than 12 hours of heavy rain. Officials and residents are assessing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}