Hurricane Beryl rumbled towards the Cayman Islands and Mexico on Thursday
, after pummeling Jamaica with winds and rain that caused floods and widespread power outages and leaving a deadly trail of destruction in several smaller Caribbean islands.
“It’s terrible. Everything’s gone. I’m in my house and scared,” said Amoy Wellington, a 51-year-old cashier who lives in Top Hill, a rural farming community in southern St. Elizabeth parish. “It’s a disaster.”Beryl was carrying top winds of 130 mph , and was expected to dump 4-6 inches of rain on the Cayman Islands, where life-threatening surf and rip currents were possible, the NHC said.Mexico’s tourist centres of Cancun and the wider Yucatan peninsula lie in Beryl’s predicted path.
Nearly 1,000 people were in shelters by Wednesday evening, Richard Thompson, acting director general at Jamaica’s disaster agency said in an interview on local news. In Grenada, Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell described “Armageddon-like” conditions after the storm made impact earlier in the week, with no power and widespread destruction, while also confirming three deaths.
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