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In One Jamaican Town, Hurricane Melissa Left Behind Floodwaters and Dead Livestock
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In One Jamaican Town, Hurricane Melissa Left Behind Floodwaters and Dead Livestock

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The New York Times

The Category 5 storm ravaged western Jamaica and drenched the small community of New River, where residents were coping with a massive clean up. At least 19 people have died nationwide, officials said.

Isaiah Beck, a carpenter, was trying to reach his storm-battered house in the New River community in St. Elizabeth parish, on Jamaica’s storm-battered southwestern coast. His home was on the other side of a large pool of chest-high water. But he thou... [403 chars]

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