Jamaica, Hurricane Melissa
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Following Hurricane Melissa’s destructive path through Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, reports and footage of its aftermath were beginning to be released on Wednesday morning. In Jamaica,
The Bancroft Bridge was irreparably damaged after Hurricane Ida remnants hit in 2021. This October, the new bridge was unveiled.
A day after two men died in flooded basements in Brooklyn and Manhattan, locals reckoned Friday with the aftermath of the city’s latest torrential downpour. The pair of deaths from the sudden soaking marked the first time in more than three years that New Yorkers have died from flooding due to extreme weather.