Living through the horror of Hurricane Melissa

历经梅莉莎飓风的恐怖时刻

Today in Focus

2025-10-31

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How will Jamaica recover from its most powerful hurricane on record? Natricia Duncan reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, living through the horror of Hurricane Melissa.

  • The wait was agonising.

  • Reports over the weekend warned Jamaicans that a storm was coming.

  • and that it would be the strongest and most terrifying since records began.

  • Making officials telling me they are taking every precaution for what could be a historic event here on the island over the next several days.

  • The weather coming in, I think this one is different.

  • This one going to impact us hard.

  • How do you prepare for the force of the highest category hurricane there is?

  • God bless us.

  • We are just praying for the less worse to happen.

  • The Caribbean has been battered by storms before,

  • but Hurricane Melissa landed on Jamaica with a power and an intensity that was unprecedented,

  • as ferocious as it was frightening.

  • These islands are now under serial threat from catastrophic weather events.

  • The kind of extreme storms that are being turbocharged by the climate crisis.

  • And for the people living there, it's a waking nightmare.

  • From The Guardian, I'm Noshi Nicbal.

  • Today in Focus, how will Jamaica recover from the monstrous impact of Melissa?

  • A little under two weeks ago,