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And add to the fact that this isn’t a large country with thousands of roofing companies willing to travel to a disaster area. The workforce there is limited as are the tools (cranes, materials, etc). Many of those places will not be rebuilt for at least 3 years or longer. Now also consider that the percentage of homes covered by insurance in Jamaica is roughly under 5%.

I’ll take the image down. But appears they lost their roof again this time around based on the Antigua reporting I linked

The video is here https://antigua.news/2025/10/28/jamaica-black-river-hospital-suffers-devastating-damage-from-hurricane-melissa/

Pinpoint eye and significant Lightning visible in this image capture. Just a monster of a storm.

Flooding in Kingston already via this sat image from Copernicus

Footage of flooding coming in from Dominican Republic this morning is bad enough. Can’t imagine what people of Haiti are going through. However all of Jamaica better seek shelter higher up cause the coastline is about to get decimated. This one reminds me of Wilma as a late storm cat 5, but even that made landfall in Mexico as only a 4. this may well be the most powerful storm to hit the island of Jamaica in recorded history. To put it in perspective 45 deaths were attributed to Gilbert back in ‘88 and that was a C3.

11/4/2

I am reading in the News today that DOGE has entered NOAA headquarters and will be looking to downsize it. Any ideas on what this could mean? I was understanding that NOAA was making do with limited budgets that had not kept up with inflation. restricting NOAAs ability to report on climate change and do advanced modeling and reporting of storm threats would be disastrous in my opinion.

That euro is not great news for the FL southwest coast. we have only ever had 3 canes come into Florida in November this would be the 4th in history.

Agree but if it’s a congressional representative or ex president suggesting this and who apparently pretends to have access to this info, then it is incumbent on them to show their evidence or else stfu.

US Mets face death threats after hurricane Milton, Helene misinformation people are nuts and to think we share this world with them. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/11/meteorologists-death-threats-hurricane-conspiracies-misinformation

I’m certain it will. Just thankful it’s not an issue for most in Tampa Bay as had been widely feared. The concern over extreme record winds and record surge in TB just did not materialize.

@EngagewithErin Tampa Bay water levels to swing wildly as Milton passes. While it appears that Tampa Bay will avoid the record surge feared if Milton passed north or directly into the bay, the proximity of Milton’s core will still significant change the bay’s water levels. Strong winds blowing offshore will likely lead to “reverse surge” – or extremely low water levels as the winds blow water out of the bay and into the ocean until the storm passes late tonight. But after the eye of the storm passes south of Tampa overnight, the winds over the Bay will change direction and start to blow from a more westerly direction. This will occur as the tide is also rising ahead of the normal high tide around 6 a.m ET. Water levels are projected to rise 6 feet in 6 hours on Thursday morning, according to NOAA forecasts. At this time, water levels are not expected to reach the heights observed in Hurricane Helene two weeks ago.

Electric power holding up along most of the Tampa Bay Area for now. Surge not an issue for now. Extreme rain will result in localized fresh water flooding in the usual areas.

I hope so. Given all possible outcomes just three days ago this seem like a win Tornado events are still in play so we must stay vigilant