Western Jamaica ravaged by Hurricane Melissa
Jamaica’s government on Wednesday declared the island of nearly three million people a disaster area after the first significant storm of this year devastated large parts of western Jamaica, felling power lines, trees, dumping the equivalent of months of rainfall in a few hours, triggering landslides and consequential flooding in residential communities and tourism enclaves, officials said. Packing winds of up to 185 miles per hour with gusts well over […]
