(4 Jul 2024)
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Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – 4 July 2024
1. Various of machinery cleaning up debris caused by hurricane
2. Cars driving on roads
3. Various of large waves crashing against shore
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dwight Doyes, resident of Grand Cayman
“As you can see, the sea is a little bit rough, we got some trees on the ground but not much.”
5. Various of machinery cleaning up debris
6. Various of waves crashing against shore
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dwight Doyes, resident of Grand Cayman
“Cayman Islands can take (it) and, you know what, it can manage. So it just gives us what we can bear.”
8. Various of felled trees
STORYLINE:
Hurricane Beryl ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95% of homes on a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines before rumbling past the Cayman Islands early Thursday.
After hours of heavy rain and strong wind, the streets of Grand Cayman were littered with tree branches and other debris, and big waves still washed over the marina.
But people stayed safe at home, waiting for the authorities’ “all clear” before assessing the damage.
Cleaning crews with machinery went out when the rain stopped to clear the roads.
The premier of the Cayman Islands, Juliana O’Connor, thanked residents and visitors Thursday for contributing to the “collective calm” ahead of Beryl by following storm protocols.
After leaving a trail of destruction across the eastern Caribbean and at least nine people dead, Hurricane Beryl weakened as it chugged over open water toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Thursday, going from the earliest Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic to Category 2 by the afternoon.
Jack Beven, senior hurricane specialist at the U.S. Hurricane Center, said “the biggest immediate threat now that the storm is moving away from the Cayman Islands is landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula.”
The storm’s center was about 215 miles (345 kilometers) east-southeast of Tulum, Mexico, on Thursday afternoon.
It had maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 20 mph (about 31 kph).
Beryl was expected to bring heavy rain and moderate winds to Mexico’s Caribbean coast, before crossing Yucatan and restrengthening in the Gulf of Mexico to make a second strike on northeast Mexico.
AP video shot by: Kevin Morales
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