As Hurricane Gustav slams the Gulf Coast, we, here in Jamaica are still recovering. The eastern parishes of St. Thomas, St. Mary, Portland and St. Andrew took the brunt of the storm. There were reports of people losing their roofs, and some houses being completely washed away (most of these are those bordering gullies). As of yesterday afternoon, seven people are reported dead and four missing (and presumed dead) after their car was washed away while attempting to ford a river.
Even though it was a tropical storm it still wreaked havoc as rain fell for close to 36 hours. For us, in the middle part of the island, we had rain starting Thursday night at about 11:00 pm and were still seeing rain till Saturday morning at 8:00 am. We were fortunate as we only lost power for a few hours and water (from the pipe) for just over a day.
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