Videos recorded in Hurricane Melissa’s eyewall at landfall in Jamaica are starting to be released.
They’re hard to watch.
For survivors of hurricanes Maria, Otis, Dorian, Irma, and so many other recent category 4 & 5 hurricanes, it’s better if you don’t. But if you do watch, mute the video. The scars for survivors of the worst storms on planet Earth last a lifetime, and so many still suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the visceral memory of the awful whistling of the wind.
Renowned storm chaser Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone on social media) shared 85 seconds of Melissa’s onslaught onto coastal St. Elizabeth Parish in southwest Jamaica late Wednesday night. It shows, as he describes, a palm tree nearly obscured by the sideways blowing rain bending unnaturally and “obscenely” d

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