Watching an interview with Fox Weather's Robert Ray

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He says his experience during and after Hurricane Melissa is up there with NOLA during Katrina 2005 and the South Asian tsunami in 2004.
He faced 145mph winds in St Ann.
It was a surprisingly good interview.

I’ll post the YouTube when it’s available or you can check out OneSpot Jamaica, TVJ.

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1. I'm glad you made it through in a relatively quieter corner of Jamaica. I was shocked by the photos I've seen. ...

... the wind damage definitely looked a lot worse than Katrina.

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2. Six parishes took the hit

Westmoreland, St Elizabeth, Trelawny, Hanover, St James and St Ann.
Therest of us have minor damage .
Let me put it this way, if Melissa took Gilbert’s track , there would be over 100,000 dead and there would be no communication with the outside world at this time.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Melissa_2025_path.png

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3. Is there a robust cleanup and rescue going on? No news about it here.

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4. Yes

from locals, several disaster organizations, international organizations, foreign governments (including the US) and volunteers from all over.
You can find coverage by looking for the parishes.

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5. All of that is good to know!