Melissa definitely a long trackers.

This is a very short blog today. That's basically it for now. I'll update later today after going through info but this morning I just want to take a rest and get some things done.

Melissa did a horrible job on Jamaica. Horrible destruction and debris littered everywhere at landfall. Lots of small towns and villages up in the mountains, it will take time to hear from and get the full picture of what went on there. The airport looks like one of those "Abandoned Jamaica" sites on Instagram. Empty chairs, ceiling tiles down, water pouring through and very trashed in many ways. 

The power grid there is down. Info is slow to come and facts are few and far between, though throughout the day today more news will come out. Amazingly very fake AI pics were passed around immediately (think before you repost) and sad to not be able to trust the flow of images and vidoes (some from Beryl) being shown.  

2nd largest city in Cuba was hit by Melissa as a Category 4.

What will be in the Bahamas, who knows...but they've had plenty of time to prepare.  

My hope is  that people will learn lessons from this and from how people survived and how people died. What to do and what not to do. For example many deaths in Florence and Matthew in NC were from people in the dark moving barricades in roadways because they wanted to go check on someone or just wanted to use that road and ended up dead in the middle of the night as the car went underwater. Barricades are there for a reason.   A lesson many learned here and hopefully will not happen again.

But the survival stories may teach others in other hurricanes  how to survive such a Major blow, tho it's rare to have such a Cat 5. 

Going out, going offline. Will be back later today. 

One last look at Hurricane Melissa on the move........ on her way to the Bahamas.