Over the years I've seen places that I use to frequent in the Everglades and Keys just completely wiped off the map. I always use to try and go at the end of the Hurricane season, the nearer to December generally brings better weather there, that's how I knew you were unlucky to be hit by something on that scale so late in the season and so slow moving. I've done Christmas and New Year out there and it was nice avoiding the subtropical rain fall you get every summer, with temps averaging around 26c at best, making it so much more pleasent. I tried to beat a very small storm onetime in my car earlier in the time of year, thinking I can get across one of the many bridges in time, it suddenly dawned on me with the speed of the storm, there's a reason those bridges have pull in areas, not something I ever want to repeat, and it didn't even touch anywhere near what you've been through. And Jamaica is a lot different to Florida in the sense it does not have the same resources nor econmic ability to recover so quickly. It's good seeing how it brings people together though in time of crisis.
Exactly this. Pretty much air brushed out, especially by the BBC. Said as much to Mrs Chief at the time.
Don’t take this the wrong way Saf but you’re in an area of the world that suffers from these types of events annually. Rightly or wrongly, unless you're caught up in it, it’s not newsworthy and usually the Yanks deal with it.
Mate, the whole world knows that between May to end of October is hurricane season. Unfortunately this one has been worse than others but it’s not a unique phenomenon for those parts, which is why it doesn’t make the news. I’m not trying to belittle what’s gone on, only explain why the news channels haven’t really picked up on it.
