Through wind and flooding, an AP journalist shows what Hurricane Melissa left behind in Jamaica
When Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, it was one of the strongest Category 5 storms on record. Roofs peeled away from the force of the winds and streets flooded. The storm brought 185 mph winds and 892 millibars of central pressure that, according to The Associated Press, tied two records for the strongest Atlantic storm on landfall.
Matias Delacroix, a photojournalist for the AP, was on the island, covering Hurricane Melissa. As it made landfall, he tried to move a bit more east, to either Old Harbour, a town near Jamaica’s southern coast, or Rocky Point, a tiny community on the southern coast of the Clarendon parish.
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