The Cayman Islands are now feeling the fury of deadly Hurricane Beryl after the monster storm brought destructive winds and life-threatening storm surge flooding to Jamaica.
The Cayman Islands are now feeling the fury of deadly Hurricane Beryl after the monster storm brought destructive winds and life-threatening storm surge flooding to Jamaica, and now millions living on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, including popular tourist destinations Cancun and Cozumel, are bracing for impact.
Jamaica and the Cayman Islands were the latest communities to be impacted by the historic storm since it made landfall in the southern Windward Islands on Monday, where it caused significant damage and led to the deaths of at least 11 people across the region.1 dead in Jamaica, hundreds evacuate to shelters ahead of Hurricane Beryl
According to a report from Reuters, a woman in Jamaica’s Hanover parish died after a tree fell onto her home.
Hundreds of people living in Jamaica fled their homes and found safety inside one of the numerous shelters that had opened up ahead of Hurricane Beryl’s arrival on Wednesday.
While speaking to the media, Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced close to 500 people were in shelters and confirmed that sufficient supplies and resources were available.
In addition, more than 100 people were evacuated from flood-prone areas in communities such as Old Harbour Bay and St. Catherine.
Officials said there was a coordinated effort to get those residents to shelter, and sounded an emergency siren to warn those in the area of the danger.
According to a post from Jamaica Information Service, Old Harbour Bay is a fishing community and has an early warning system that sends messages from emergency officials to those in vulnerable areas.
Hurricane Beryl is responsible for knocking down numerous trees and power lines that blocked roads and knocked out power across the island, but there is so far no word on any extreme damage reports.
Jamaica is no longer under a Hurricane Warning and the weather should begin to improve as the day continues, and a new curfew that went into effect on Wednesday night was lifted at 6 a.
