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    Hurrikan Melissa, jetzt ein Sturm der Kategorie 5, rast auf Jamaika, Haiti, Kuba zu – National

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    1. BasvanS on

      No, it’s not barreling. It’s moving very slowly, which is a problem, because it’s accumulating even more energy that way, and beat everything in its path mercilessly for longer. It’ll take half a day to traverse Jamaica, at *walking pace.* (With wind speeds that rip your face off)

    2. disharmony-hellride on

      Just came here to say if you’re in Jamaica and you haven’t evacuated to a shelter, *please start thinking about going.* There are 800 shelters up and running across the island right now, and only 76 of them have any folks taking cover there at all. I know it’s a bit early, but flooding has already started and 51,000 people are without power – and the bad wind/rain isn’t even there yet. It also isn’t entirely about housing, it’s about becoming completely isolated because the roads to get to you will become impassable. It’s about making sure you have water and supplies. Please be careful, Jamaica has never had a storm this size approach in this manner.

      Please don’t think you’ll be fine. You could be stranded for WEEKS. There’s help available, please take it. Sending love from the US.

    3. NoMoPolenta on

      The only good thing about this Hurricane is it means we’re about to get a bunch of Dancehall songs saying how this was all caused by dutty wining

    4. Otherwise-Sun2486 on

      Jamaica is pretty much done as far as I can tell. recovery will take at least 2 decades. The amount of rain storm surge the wind speed for 3-5 consecutive days over the ENTIRE island the amount of erosion.

    5. MASH12140 on

      My family are stuck in the hotel in Jamaica on holiday. They have been told to stay inside and ride it out. They are on the coast.

    6. VanCityPhotoNewbie on

      This is the strongest Hurricane to ever hit Jamaica since records began in 1851. This just came out from the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

      >The system had maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 3 mph (5 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

      It is identical to strength and size as Hurricane Katrina. So for everyone in Jamaica please be ready and be safe.

    7. Stinkfinger83 on

      I’ve never been to Jamaica, but have been to similar islands. I assume this gonna be real fuckin bad?

    8. Chicken_Ingots on

      I really wanted to have a job for providing humanitarian support to areas hit by disaster, though I never really knew where to look or what qualifications were needed. Seeing disasters like these unfold is horrible, and I remember seeing entire neighborhoods of people who lost their homes back when the tornadoes in April of 2011 did enormous damage all throughout my state.

      Haiti does not even have its rainforests anymore to help protect it from some of the worst of storms like these, so this could be especially devastating to their existing agricultural system.

      And being in island regions, it is not like people in any of these areas can just drive to another location that is well outside of its path. Hopefully at least people might come together to provide aid in response to this storm, since there has been a severe lack of altruism around the world in recent history.

    9. PsychologyMiserable4 on

      This sounds bad. good luck guys. may you and your loved ones be safe.

    10. destroythenseek on

      Windy claims theres parts of it at 60 knots, but overall it doesnt look like its that bad- am I missing something?

    13. The_Frozen_Inferno on

      I saw somewhere that at its peak the intensity of this hurricane will push the upper limits of what’s even possible for a storm on earth. Jamaica will need a lot of help after this, and quickly

    16. soylentgreenishere on

      Barrels? It’s 3 mph

      I hate the anthropomorphic (right word) -ism of a hurricane

      It’s not its fury, wrath, it’s not mad a jamaica

    17. lowercasejames on

      I don’t think people understand how much the US used to engage foreign countries to support emergency response. But we are all about to find out.

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