{"id":85437,"date":"2024-07-01T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-flattens-grenadas-carriacou-island\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T21:09:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:09:19","slug":"hurricane-beryl-flattens-grenadas-carriacou-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-flattens-grenadas-carriacou-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Beryl Flattens Grenada\u2019s Carriacou Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/01\/multimedia\/01grenada-beryl-wbpz\/01grenada-beryl-wbpz-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Hurricane Beryl Flattens Grenada\u2019s Carriacou Island\" title=\"Hurricane Beryl Flattens Grenada\u2019s Carriacou Island\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials in Barbados said on Monday that the island had been spared the worst of Beryl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, told a nationwide broadcast from the island\u2019s emergency operations center that as many as 20 fishing boats, including two popular cruisers, had possibly sunk. Still, she added, \u201cThis could have been far worse for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Roughly 40 homes were known to have sustained roof or structural damage so far, she said, though that number was expected to rise as more than 400 residents returned home from shelters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On St. Lucia, storm surge caused significant damage to fishing vessels, sinking at least 20 boats, according to initial reports. Dozens of homes were also damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People across the eastern Caribbean had started preparing for the storm over the weekend, including those doing some last-minute shopping for supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHurricanes are not something that we take lightly at home as a family,\u201d said Fleur Mathurin, who lives on St. Lucia, where some parts of the island were experiencing power outages. \u201cHaving my family, my grandmothers, great-grands, gone through Hurricane Allen and Gilbert, this is something that they always preach to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As of Monday afternoon, the storm was expected to continue tearing its way through the Caribbean, reaching Jamaica with potential hurricane conditions by Wednesday according to the National Hurricane Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Julius Gittens contributed reporting from Christ Church, Barbados; Linda Straker from Gouyave, Grenada; Kenton X. Chance from Kingstown, St. Vincent; Sharefil Gaillard from Gros Islet, St. Lucia; and Maria Abi-Habib from Mexico City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/01\/world\/americas\/hurricane-beryl-grenada-carriacou.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Barbados said on Monday that the island had been spared the worst of Beryl. The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, told a nationwide broadcast from the island\u2019s emergency operations center that as many as 20 fishing boats, including two popular cruisers, had possibly sunk. Still, she added, \u201cThis could have been far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/01\/multimedia\/01grenada-beryl-wbpz\/01grenada-beryl-wbpz-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74078,74768,74766,74767,26847,136],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85439,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85437\/revisions\/85439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}