Hurricane Melissa Aftermath: Drone Over St Elizabeth & Local Voices | Jamaica Storm Crisis

📍 Location: St Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica 🌪️ Event: Hurricane Melissa – Category 5 landfall (October 28, 2025) Witness the aftermath of one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded as it tore through Jamaica, slicing across the island from St Elizabeth in the south all the way toward St Ann in the north.  🇯🇲 In this video: • Aerial drone footage showing villages submerged in floodwaters, roofs ripped off, trees uprooted and roads blocked deep in St Elizabeth. • First-hand interviews with local residents who endured winds over 180 mph (≈295 km/h) and up to 4 metre storm surges.  • Ground-level scenes of power cut-offs — over 500,000 homes without electricity — and emergency shelters filling up.  • A raw human perspective: families trying to salvage belongings, communities mobilising for rescues, the “bread-basket” parish of St Elizabeth described as “underwater”.  💡 Why it matters: Hurricane Melissa is tied with the historic 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the most intense landfalling Atlantic hurricane, and the strongest ever recorded in Jamaica.  🔔 What you’ll gain from watching: • A rare aerial view of disaster-scale destruction captured early in the recovery phase. • Voices of resilience: local Jamaicans speaking candidly about loss, survival and rebuilding. • Insight into how extreme weather events are increasingly influenced by climate factors — urgent real-world context. ✅ Don’t forget: • Like 👍 and Subscribe for more storm-impact, travel recovery and human-resilience stories. • Hit the bell 🔔 to get notified when we drop Part 2 (on relief-efforts & rebuilding in Jamaica). • Comment below your thoughts: what struck you most in this footage? #HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #StormAftermath #DroneFootage #ExtremeWeather #StElizabeth #HumanStories #DisasterRecovery #ClimateCrisis #TravelImpact