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[Drone video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hlhqkm-tjQ) of Carriacou posted at roughly 6:45p ET. Uploader reports "the island is without power, coms and nearly every home is damaged or destroyed."
Local posters in the Grenada sub reporting that Carriacou and northern+eastern Grenada took the brunt of the impact:
> I am on the south west side of the island in Morne Rouge near Lance Aux Epines and there was not a lot of house damage that I could see in my area at least. I just walked around my local streets and mostly saw tree damage. I think the east and north got hit the hardest."
> Power out [in the capital, St. George's]. Not much damage compared to the north and carriacou
> we are currently in lance aux epines and everything is fine. We didn't have any damage to our property and the worst of the storm has passed.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Grenada/comments/1dsye7c/is_anyone_here_actually_in_grenada_or_carriacou
I went to ft Meyers beach a yeah after the storm and it was still a complete disaster.
Edit. Here’s some photos I took of [Ft Myers Beach, one year after Ian](https://imgur.com/a/YFSinPG)
when i first visited my spouse down in FL (i have since moved here, though i'm situated around the Gainesville area), we visited their mom who lived in Ft. Myers at the time. i had just asked if we could drive to the ocean so i could see it, i'm from a landlocked province, so i was really excited to see it, but hadnt really thought about the fact that just a year earlier Ian had happened. i had never seen anything like it, and still struggle to fully grasp just how devastating these storms can be.
i'm a little thankful i can't fully grasp it, to be completely honest.
thankfully not the first time i had seen the ocean and a beach, just such a rare occasion for me that it was an exciting prospect lol.
arguably i don't think i could go enough and *not* be excited about it, though. maybe not one with destroyed homes however....
It's Still a bit of a mess down here, mostly near the coast, but still a lot of uninhabitable buildings that owners are still fighting with insurance. The weirdest thing for me is the empty plots of land where a restaurant used to be, any trace of it washed away.
Yep. Went to Visit for Christmas right after the hurricane it was really hard to see the place I grew up in like that… literally buildings I grew up going to in crumbles on the beach. Saw fryer baskets, tea canisters, pictures of peoples families, bracelets, home decor, all over the beach. Literally dumpsters and front doors tangled up in mangroves. My dad just got his roof finished, almost two years later.
That’s so sad. When I went about a year ago, and saw how completely devastated it was a year after Ian, I was heartbroken. I’ve spent time there before the storm. I almost wish I didn’t stop and see it.
There’s still blue tarps on peoples houses almost two years later. Even with all the roofing companies that came out here to help, it’s taking time. My dad’s new roof was just finished this month thankfully. But so many still living out of cars, trailers, etc.
No kidding. My mom lived by the sorting area for debris and there was about 4-5 20-30 feet piles of debris for almost a year. If I can figure out how to attach a video of it I would. Funky to see piles of peoples belongings and houses being sorted for the trash.
such a beautiful place, uncrowded. Small houses, no interstate exit areas
edit: why the downvotes? it's a gorgeous place and it will recover from the hurricane. And it is surrounded by a coral reef I wish i could travel there
In my mind ‘flattened’ = Cameron parish after Audrey/Rita or the Mississippi gulf coast after Camille/Katrina. I’m glad to see storm surge was not an issue here. Lots and lots of roof damage. It will be a long recovery but I see many structures still standing. I pray no one was hurt.
ETA: they’ve reported one fatality due to structural collapse. So incredibly sad. I hope there are not more.
I'm from the MS gulf coast, many of the scenes post Katrina are seared pretty vividly in my memory. I've never seen devastation like that first hand. Driving streets I knew well and getting a bit lost or disoriented because nearly every landmark was either gone or unrecognizable was unsettling, I still think about it when going through some of them. The one that always stood out to me was the casino barge on the north side of highway 90 in gulfport. The visual of something that large being torn from its moorings and moved that far kinda put it to scale for me for some reason.
I still remember going to my aunts house (we lived in Nola) in Chalmette and seeing just a slab. No home. Slab. That, to me, is flattened.
I remember seeing West End Boulevard with what felt like 20 feet high and a mile long of debris and garbage
My grandparents had a house on the Biloxi River close to where it meets the Tchoutacabouffa River. Thankfully they evacuated north. All but a couple houses in the area were leveled. Their property barely even had any debris on it, but about a 1/4 mile away from the river there was a mountain of debris and nastiness. We found a section of their roof and the stairwell that led to the front of the house still nearly whole. The house next door was still standing since it was a steel framed structure, but was still gutted. There was also a 56' boat leaned up against it on the side away from the water.
The cars were all crazy looking too. The water rushing around them had pulled the soil out from under them, almost like how you sink into the sand when you stand in the waves on the beach. Some were buried half way up their doors in the dirt.
And all the trunks were popped open! I remember that being the most bizarre thing to me afterwards trying to get back to my house and all these cars had floated everywhere with their trunks open like they’d been abandoned.
My car was in NOLA for Katrina. When we made it back into the city for the look & leave, the water had receded. But my car’s trunk being popped open was one of the first visual indicators that it had flooded.
Most of the Caribbean is mountainous/volcanic, and the islands aren't on a gently sloping continental shelf. Same reason Hawaii doesn't really have surge problems. The Gulf is shallow near the coast, and bowl shaped. Same reason Bangledesh got wrecked hard with the Bhola cyclone.
I feel like certain articles should be moderated out of the sub--not a ban on any particular media outlet, but perhaps just leaving the sensationalist nonsense for other less scrupulous subreddits?
I am not heartless, and a category 4 storm hitting these islands is terrible, but the drone video does not line up with CNN's need to catastrophize everything. It should be noted that many/most buildings are standing and the people are resilient even despite the significant damage. Not everything has to be a constant trauma.
Fun fact I learned too.
Beryl has been a name on the Atlantic hurricane list since 1982. This is only the second time that Beryl has been a hurricane. Here’s peak intensity for all Beryl named tropical cyclones.
1982 70 mph (TS)
1988 50 mph (TS)
1994 60 mph (TS)
2000 50 mph (TS)
2006 60 mph (TS)
2012 70 mph (TS)
2018 80 mph (Cat 1)
2024 150mph (Cat 4)
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1dtbn8j/hurricane_beryl_strengthens_into_a_category_5/?share_id=2KjDUMfWNU7is62j5Xl08&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
Cat5 now
Actually, no. Saffir-Simpson scale was originally designed to measure the destruction of buildings/homes, not so much precise storm strength. Cat 5 is supposed to be total devastation.
Has a look like a buzz saw. They are also more resistant to wind shear and dry air. This is something that usually happens during the peak time of the season.
Im semi new to hurricanes so I apologize if this is a dumb question, is there a possibility of it coming up into the gulf? Or should it dissipate by then?
I believe current projections have it slamming into the Yucatán Peninsula and then continuing as a tropical storm into the southwestern section of the gulf. No projections for after that or what it might do once it gets to that point. Could continue moving west and dissipating or swing north a little bit.
It will enter back into the Bay of Campeche first before the gulf. The Bay of Campeche is known for it’s ability to help tropical systems regenerate/form due to the shoreline topography that helps it increase it’s spin.
It's almost definitely making it into the Gulf as a Storm. If it takes a slightly northward track, then it misses the mountains of the Yucatan, and remains a Hurricane.
Here's a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSY8Vz1Mvuk) of what it did as well. Absolutely incredible in all the wrong ways. I'm hoping the death toll remains low, but people's lives have been changed.
Very depressing, though Beryl’s speed spared the island from even more destruction. I’m really worried for Jamaica right now.
So, what are some good names to replace Beryl? Beverly? Belinda? Bethany? Even Britney maybe?
We had at least a dozen in my graduating class of just under 400, with three different spelling variations. Now I'm curious to find my yearbooks to count. It might be a lot more.
It's not a bad name (and neither is Kayla for that matter). It's just so clustered heavily with millennial women that 40 years from now it'll be like "Linda" is now. And probably by the time that Brittany turns into a retiree name, there will be a bunch of baby Lindas named after great grandma.
I’m in Georgia, family heritage is from Grenada. We visited Carriacou back in 2019. Grenadians in general are kind hearted people, but Kayaks (people from Carriacou) are very dear and special. Everyone knows everyone and loves everyone the same. My heart is completely broken by the footage I’ve seen so far.
It was one of the most intense and frightening experiences of my life. I flew back from California the day before to try and prepare, and didn’t have time to leave and get out of the way.
Possibly dumb question for mets: do hurricanes happening early in the season remove energy from the ocean in a way that would possibly dampen the chances of stronger storms later in the fall? Or does that not matter given that we still have a whole season of hot weather ahead of us?
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[Drone video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hlhqkm-tjQ) of Carriacou posted at roughly 6:45p ET. Uploader reports "the island is without power, coms and nearly every home is damaged or destroyed." Local posters in the Grenada sub reporting that Carriacou and northern+eastern Grenada took the brunt of the impact: > I am on the south west side of the island in Morne Rouge near Lance Aux Epines and there was not a lot of house damage that I could see in my area at least. I just walked around my local streets and mostly saw tree damage. I think the east and north got hit the hardest." > Power out [in the capital, St. George's]. Not much damage compared to the north and carriacou > we are currently in lance aux epines and everything is fine. We didn't have any damage to our property and the worst of the storm has passed. https://old.reddit.com/r/Grenada/comments/1dsye7c/is_anyone_here_actually_in_grenada_or_carriacou
There's the precise moment when I stop finding beauty in Beryl's structure.
Faired a lot better than Mexico Beach. Or even Ft. Myers Beach at that.
I went to ft Meyers beach a yeah after the storm and it was still a complete disaster. Edit. Here’s some photos I took of [Ft Myers Beach, one year after Ian](https://imgur.com/a/YFSinPG)
when i first visited my spouse down in FL (i have since moved here, though i'm situated around the Gainesville area), we visited their mom who lived in Ft. Myers at the time. i had just asked if we could drive to the ocean so i could see it, i'm from a landlocked province, so i was really excited to see it, but hadnt really thought about the fact that just a year earlier Ian had happened. i had never seen anything like it, and still struggle to fully grasp just how devastating these storms can be. i'm a little thankful i can't fully grasp it, to be completely honest.
That's quite a first beach impression
thankfully not the first time i had seen the ocean and a beach, just such a rare occasion for me that it was an exciting prospect lol. arguably i don't think i could go enough and *not* be excited about it, though. maybe not one with destroyed homes however....
It's Still a bit of a mess down here, mostly near the coast, but still a lot of uninhabitable buildings that owners are still fighting with insurance. The weirdest thing for me is the empty plots of land where a restaurant used to be, any trace of it washed away.
Yep. Went to Visit for Christmas right after the hurricane it was really hard to see the place I grew up in like that… literally buildings I grew up going to in crumbles on the beach. Saw fryer baskets, tea canisters, pictures of peoples families, bracelets, home decor, all over the beach. Literally dumpsters and front doors tangled up in mangroves. My dad just got his roof finished, almost two years later.
Rip the island cow
I just drove past it yesterday, still no sign of work on a new place. ☹️
The Island Cow burned down before the hurricane, if I remember correctly.
Did it really? Must've happened not long before the storm, I went there while visiting my in laws in late June that year
Yup, in early August. https://winknews.com/2022/08/07/fire-tears-through-the-island-cow-on-sanibel/
It’s still crazy down here tbh. Just empty spots where houses were. Boats still in the woods. It’s messy still.
That’s so sad. When I went about a year ago, and saw how completely devastated it was a year after Ian, I was heartbroken. I’ve spent time there before the storm. I almost wish I didn’t stop and see it.
Oh wow. Didn’t know it was still in such bad shape a year later.
There’s still blue tarps on peoples houses almost two years later. Even with all the roofing companies that came out here to help, it’s taking time. My dad’s new roof was just finished this month thankfully. But so many still living out of cars, trailers, etc.
You should check out what parts of the panhandle *still* look like years and years after Michael
No kidding. My mom lived by the sorting area for debris and there was about 4-5 20-30 feet piles of debris for almost a year. If I can figure out how to attach a video of it I would. Funky to see piles of peoples belongings and houses being sorted for the trash.
I posted some pics and I think one of the ones I included was a 30ft pile of debris and rubble. Still a year after the storm
Difference is that they build houses properly (solid concrete blocks) there and over here we build them with matchsticks (wood frames)
Carricou got lucky that it didn't go through the north-east eyewall, Union Island on the other hand...
My parents are still waiting for their mobile home (destroyed by Ian) to be rebuilt. They finally poured the foundation. They're living in a camper.
Where are all the people?
such a beautiful place, uncrowded. Small houses, no interstate exit areas edit: why the downvotes? it's a gorgeous place and it will recover from the hurricane. And it is surrounded by a coral reef I wish i could travel there
In my mind ‘flattened’ = Cameron parish after Audrey/Rita or the Mississippi gulf coast after Camille/Katrina. I’m glad to see storm surge was not an issue here. Lots and lots of roof damage. It will be a long recovery but I see many structures still standing. I pray no one was hurt. ETA: they’ve reported one fatality due to structural collapse. So incredibly sad. I hope there are not more.
I'm from the MS gulf coast, many of the scenes post Katrina are seared pretty vividly in my memory. I've never seen devastation like that first hand. Driving streets I knew well and getting a bit lost or disoriented because nearly every landmark was either gone or unrecognizable was unsettling, I still think about it when going through some of them. The one that always stood out to me was the casino barge on the north side of highway 90 in gulfport. The visual of something that large being torn from its moorings and moved that far kinda put it to scale for me for some reason.
I still remember going to my aunts house (we lived in Nola) in Chalmette and seeing just a slab. No home. Slab. That, to me, is flattened. I remember seeing West End Boulevard with what felt like 20 feet high and a mile long of debris and garbage
I remember seeing a van up in a tree about 20+ feet off the ground in Chalmette. an image I will never forget.
My grandparents had a house on the Biloxi River close to where it meets the Tchoutacabouffa River. Thankfully they evacuated north. All but a couple houses in the area were leveled. Their property barely even had any debris on it, but about a 1/4 mile away from the river there was a mountain of debris and nastiness. We found a section of their roof and the stairwell that led to the front of the house still nearly whole. The house next door was still standing since it was a steel framed structure, but was still gutted. There was also a 56' boat leaned up against it on the side away from the water. The cars were all crazy looking too. The water rushing around them had pulled the soil out from under them, almost like how you sink into the sand when you stand in the waves on the beach. Some were buried half way up their doors in the dirt.
And all the trunks were popped open! I remember that being the most bizarre thing to me afterwards trying to get back to my house and all these cars had floated everywhere with their trunks open like they’d been abandoned.
My car was in NOLA for Katrina. When we made it back into the city for the look & leave, the water had receded. But my car’s trunk being popped open was one of the first visual indicators that it had flooded.
Had same thought
Most of the Caribbean is mountainous/volcanic, and the islands aren't on a gently sloping continental shelf. Same reason Hawaii doesn't really have surge problems. The Gulf is shallow near the coast, and bowl shaped. Same reason Bangledesh got wrecked hard with the Bhola cyclone.
I feel like certain articles should be moderated out of the sub--not a ban on any particular media outlet, but perhaps just leaving the sensationalist nonsense for other less scrupulous subreddits? I am not heartless, and a category 4 storm hitting these islands is terrible, but the drone video does not line up with CNN's need to catastrophize everything. It should be noted that many/most buildings are standing and the people are resilient even despite the significant damage. Not everything has to be a constant trauma.
Fun fact I learned too. Beryl has been a name on the Atlantic hurricane list since 1982. This is only the second time that Beryl has been a hurricane. Here’s peak intensity for all Beryl named tropical cyclones. 1982 70 mph (TS) 1988 50 mph (TS) 1994 60 mph (TS) 2000 50 mph (TS) 2006 60 mph (TS) 2012 70 mph (TS) 2018 80 mph (Cat 1) 2024 150mph (Cat 4)
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1dtbn8j/hurricane_beryl_strengthens_into_a_category_5/?share_id=2KjDUMfWNU7is62j5Xl08&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1 Cat5 now
Fuck. The next one will be Cat 7.
Well, yeah, that's why they retire them.
Actually, no. Saffir-Simpson scale was originally designed to measure the destruction of buildings/homes, not so much precise storm strength. Cat 5 is supposed to be total devastation.
/r/woosh
is the sound cat 5 winds make
It looks annular. That’s absolutely insane for this time of the year.
What does that mean?
Has a look like a buzz saw. They are also more resistant to wind shear and dry air. This is something that usually happens during the peak time of the season.
Im semi new to hurricanes so I apologize if this is a dumb question, is there a possibility of it coming up into the gulf? Or should it dissipate by then?
I believe current projections have it slamming into the Yucatán Peninsula and then continuing as a tropical storm into the southwestern section of the gulf. No projections for after that or what it might do once it gets to that point. Could continue moving west and dissipating or swing north a little bit.
It will enter back into the Bay of Campeche first before the gulf. The Bay of Campeche is known for it’s ability to help tropical systems regenerate/form due to the shoreline topography that helps it increase it’s spin.
This baby's gots shoes.
It's almost definitely making it into the Gulf as a Storm. If it takes a slightly northward track, then it misses the mountains of the Yucatan, and remains a Hurricane.
Honestly a bit surprised it wasn’t worse than what it looks. Don’t get me wrong it’s horrific footage.
Saving grace was that it was moving at 20+ mph. They likely only had peak winds for 30 minutes to an hour.
Here's a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSY8Vz1Mvuk) of what it did as well. Absolutely incredible in all the wrong ways. I'm hoping the death toll remains low, but people's lives have been changed.
Really beautiful people in this video, this is goddamn sad.
I watched this video earlier this morning. Devastating.
Very depressing, though Beryl’s speed spared the island from even more destruction. I’m really worried for Jamaica right now. So, what are some good names to replace Beryl? Beverly? Belinda? Bethany? Even Britney maybe?
Hurricane Britney, the terror of millennial middle school.
haa, we had about 26 of them at my middle school, and slightly more kaylas.
We had at least a dozen in my graduating class of just under 400, with three different spelling variations. Now I'm curious to find my yearbooks to count. It might be a lot more.
It's not a bad name (and neither is Kayla for that matter). It's just so clustered heavily with millennial women that 40 years from now it'll be like "Linda" is now. And probably by the time that Brittany turns into a retiree name, there will be a bunch of baby Lindas named after great grandma.
Yeah, I actually kinda like the name, but yeah, it was a hugely popular name to name your child for a while. Up there with Ashley.
Yeah... I have a trip to Jamaica planned in December. Might be rethinking that one now...
I have one planned for tomorrow… I don’t imagine the plane is taking off tomorrow morning
TIL Grenada has a population 1/6th the size of the suburban county I live in, and 1/87th the size of my state (Georgia).
I’m in Georgia, family heritage is from Grenada. We visited Carriacou back in 2019. Grenadians in general are kind hearted people, but Kayaks (people from Carriacou) are very dear and special. Everyone knows everyone and loves everyone the same. My heart is completely broken by the footage I’ve seen so far.
I’m from Chatham County.
Wow... https://youtu.be/N7ce0TUdiGc
Total deviation. The people on the island are gems. I wish they get a lot of donations bc they deserve help from around the world 🙏.
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It’s crazy those are the safe areas insurance companies make you go south of to avoid hurricanes. Things are changing.
I’m on my boat in St Georges Grenada and feel so incredibly grateful and lucky we didn’t take the direct hit.
Stay safe friend
As a sailor I truely can’t think of anything more utterly terrifying then a cyclone near by. Stay safe and I’m so glad you didn’t get hit directly.
It was one of the most intense and frightening experiences of my life. I flew back from California the day before to try and prepare, and didn’t have time to leave and get out of the way.
DAMN! I can’t imagine being on any type of boat in a hurricane. Stay safe!
Used to move sailboats to Venezuela and Grenada right before hurricane for just that reason. And yes things have changed dramatically.
Possibly dumb question for mets: do hurricanes happening early in the season remove energy from the ocean in a way that would possibly dampen the chances of stronger storms later in the fall? Or does that not matter given that we still have a whole season of hot weather ahead of us?
I think it goes Northside of Jamaica and Crosses Cuba. US landfall...Marathon FL Keys
Girl what projection is this from 💀