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Desrine Campbell, a resident of the low-lying area of Old Harbour Bay in Jamaica, wailed as she said her house was almost flooded.
A storm tore roofs off homes and left most of the island without electricity. A number of people remain in shelters as of Thursday.
The young man died on Wednesday after being washed into a storm water drain while trying to retrieve a ball. A woman also died after a house collapsed on her.
Beryl already spread destruction in Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados this week. There are at least eight people who have died in seven different places, including three in St.Vatican and the Grenadines, three in Venezuela and two in Jamaica.
There were temporary storm shelters at schools and hotels in the area, but efforts to evacuate a few highly exposed villages, like Mahahual, which sits on a narrow spit of land south of Tulum, were only partially successful.
After leaving a trail of destruction across the eastern Caribbean and at least 9 people dead, Hurricane ylbe strengthened back into a Category 3 storm on Thursday as it headed toward Mexico’s resort-lustered Yucatan Peninsula.
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Myriam Setra said he figured he could get the last of the sun’s rays on Thursday. It is going to be hunkered down and just stay indoors until it passes.
People were also taking precautions. Lara Marsters, 54, a therapist visiting Tulum from Boise, Idaho, said “this morning we woke up and just filled all of our empty water bottles with water from the tap and put it in the freezer … so we will have water to flush the toilet.”
“We’ve cut the gas and electricity. We also have an emergency floor where two maintenance employees will be locking down,” he said from the hotel. We have them in a room near the window and the beach.
Francisco Bencomo, General manager of Hotel Umi in Tulum said all of their guests had left. He said that guests would not be allowed to return before July 10th because of the conditions.
In Playa del Carmen, most businesses were closed Thursday and some were boarding up windows as tourists jogged by and some locals walked their dogs under sunny skies. People were evacuated from the hotels in Tulum.
Mexico’s popular Caribbean coast prepared shelters, evacuated some small outlying coastal communities and even moved sea turtle eggs off beaches threatened by storm surge.
As the wind began gusting over Tulum’s white sand beaches on Thursday afternoon, four-wheelers with megaphones rolled along the sand telling people to leave. Tourists snapped photos of the growing surf, but military personnel urged them to leave as Beryl headed to an expected landfall around Tulum early Friday.
The storm’s center was about 135 miles (220 kilometers) east-southeast of Tulum, Mexico, and was moving west-northwest at 16 mph (about 26 kph), the hurricane center said.
The greatest threat at the moment is the fact that the storm is moving away from the Cayman Islands, according to Jack Beven.
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“No hesitation, no wavering.” Material things can be recovered. The most important thing is life,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a statement saying Beryl may make a direct hit on Tulum, which, while smaller than Cancun, still holds thousands of tourists and residents.
The Hurricane center said that Beryl, which became a Category 5 storm earlier in the day, now has 115 mph (185 kph) winds.
Carlton Golding said he lost everything this time. The second time he has suffered damage from storms, his house was destroyed by the latest one.
Clarendon residents attempted to repair damaged roofs and clear downed trees. The roads were partially blocked by downed electricity and telecommunication poles.
The premier of the Cayman Islands thanked residents and visitors for helping out in the wake of the storm.
Michelle Forbes, the St. Vincent and Grenadines director of the National Emergency Management Organization, said that about 95% of homes in Mayreau and Union Island have been damaged by Hurricane Beryl.
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In addition to the deaths in Carriacou and St.Vincent and the Grenadines, three other people were reported dead in other parts of the world. Three other deaths were reported in northern Venezuela, where four people were missing, officials said.
Tropical Storm Aletta had formed in the Pacific Ocean, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Aletta was forecast to head away from land by the weekend and had a maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.
The United Nations is making $4 million in emergency relief funds available to Grenada, Jamaica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. A growing number of aid groups are in the Caribbean to help the people who have been affected.
“Union is a field of devastation,” Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said in an Instagram video from a helicopter surveying the damage. Only the odd building is not damaged or destroyed.
In St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Union Island — some 3 miles long and 1 mile wide, and home to about 3,000 residents — saw about 98% of its buildings damaged or destroyed, including its hospital and airport control tower.
He said there was no vegetation left on Carriacou, the mangroves were destroyed and the boats and the marinas were damaged. The electrical grid system in Carriacou is almost destroyed. The entire communication system is completely destroyed.”
The destruction of buildings and farms on Carriacou and Petite Martinique is “almost Armageddon-like” according to Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell.
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It battered the coast of Barbados, destroying or damaging some 200 fishing vessels, before continuing on to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada as a Category 4 storm on its way to Jamaica and Mexico.
As Texans and visitors to the south coastal areas start to celebrate our nation’s Independence Day, I encourage them to make an emergency plan and keep a close eye on the weather.
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to increase the readiness level of the state’s emergency operations center starting Friday morning. In certain county parks, people with recreational vehicles were issued a voluntary evacuate notice by the county, as was the case in other areas.
Even as the center of the storm is hundreds of miles away, state and local officials are beginning to take precautionary measures.
“It’s going to take days, even weeks, possibly, to be able to get parts of this country back on its feet,” he said. “The big cities will probably get power — Montego Bay and Kingston — first. In the rural areas, it’s going to take a while.
Nick Davis told NPR’s All Things Considered from Kingston that authorities are most concerned with getting power to essential services, like water and telecommunications.
Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula was severely ravaged by a strong wind and heavy rain Thursday morning. Prime Minister Andrew Holness and residents of St Elizabeth, southern Puerto Rico, were evacuated
Cancun, home to beaches and Mayan ruins, is a popular vacation destination. Some 3,000 tourists were evacuated from Isla Mujeres back to the mainland on Thursday, according to Reuters, which also reports that at least 100 flights out of Cancun’s international airport were canceled that day.
The NHC is forecasting dangerous hurricane-force winds, a storm surge of four to six feet and damaging waves as the storm moves inland across the northern Yucatan Peninsula during the day. Some areas could see up to ten inches of rain, with the region potentially getting four to six inches.
Texas officials warned the entire coastline to prepare for flooding, heavy rain and wind as they waited for a more defined path of the storm. On Friday, the hurricane center issued hurricane and storm surge watches for the Texas coast from the mouth of the Rio Grande north to San Luis Pass, less than 80 miles (128.75 kilometers) south of Houston.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is in Taiwan so his lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, issued a disaster declaration for 40 counties.
Mexican authorities had moved some tourists and residents out of low-lying areas around the Yucatan Peninsula before landfall, but tens of thousands remained to tough out the strong winds and storm surge. Much of the area around Tulum is just a few yards (meters) above sea level.
The city was plunged into darkness when the storm knocked out power as it came ashore. Car alarms were set off by the winds. The city was lashed by rain and wind Friday morning. Army brigades roved the streets of the tourist city, clearing fallen trees and power lines.
Although no dead or wounded have been reported, nearly half of Tulum continued to be without electricity, said Laura Velázquez, national coordinator of Mexican Civil Protection.
While many in the Yucatan Peninsula took a deep breath, Jamaica and other islands ravaged by the hurricane were still reeling. Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness promised swift relief for residents after visiting one of the worst-affected areas of the island, the southern parish of St Elizabeth on Thursday.
At least 9 people have died as Hurricane ylbe made landfall in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Thursday, the US National Hurricane Center said. Hurricane ylbe is forecast to move inland across northern Yucatan Peninsula during the day. Further, a storm surge of four to six feet and damaging waves are expected as the storm moves inland.