The Jamaican Families Torn Apart by Hurricane Melissa

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The Jamaican Families Torn Apart by Hurricane Melissa

Tuesday 4th November 2025, 12:11AM

Days after a powerful hurricane made landfall in Jamaica, thousands of residents are now homeless and trying to make sense of how they narrowly survived. The New York Times traveled to the storm’s center in Black River, and found a community destroyed — without food or clean water — where families are desperate and still traumatized after being cut off from the outside world.

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