In the City of Black River, Shaved by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica: "All the Sand Has Gone on a Thickness of More than 1 Meter"

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The coastal city was the entry point of the Category 5 hurricane on the Caribbean island on Tuesday, 28 October. Completely destroyed, the city was called "Ground Zero" by the Jamaican Prime Minister.

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New video uploaded: transcript Back transcript Jamaican families torn apart by Hurricane Melissa Days after a powerful hurricane hit land in Jamaica, thousands of residents are now homeless and trying to understand how they survived for a short while. The New York Times traveled to the center of the storm in Black River and found a destroyed community (without food or drinking water) where families are desperate and still traumatized after being…