Tourists scramble to leave Jamaica ahead of powerful hurricane

The Manila Times

Tourists scramble to leave Jamaica ahead of powerful hurricane  Travelers were seen at an airport in Jamaica on Saturday (October 25) ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Melissa, with some saying they were cutting short their holidays and leaving early.  "We're on vacation. It was supposed to be for eight days. We made it seven days because of the hurricane. So we're leaving a day early," said Rich Heaning, a 77-year-old traveler from New York.  The rapidly intensifying storm is expected to wreak havoc across the Caribbean with catastrophic floods, landslides and storm surges expected in Jamaica and southern Hispaniola into early next week, forcing authorities and residents to batten down.  Evan Thompson, Jamaica's principal director at the Meteorological Service, said Melissa is expected to make landfall in Jamaica as a Category 4 storm on Tuesday (October 28), and remain for five days. Category 4 hurricanes have sustained winds of 130 to 156 mph.  REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe Visit our website at [https://www.manilatimes.net](https://www.manilatimes.net/)  Follow us: Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion  Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital  Check out our Podcasts: Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #WorldNews

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00:00Secure that, secure that.

00:30We arrived on the 20th of October.

00:44Obviously there was no indications that there was a storm coming.

00:49We have spent since Thursday trying to figure out where and what, but it wasn't until about

00:55an hour ago that we got a notification to say that we were going home.

01:00Up until an hour ago we had no ideas about what was happening and we were kind of resigned

01:05ourselves to the fact that we were going to be stuck in a hurricane.

01:25We are leaving two days earlier, they managed, WestJet managed to finally get a rescue flight

01:44for us so we are leaving on the 7.45 flight to go home.

02:01Yeah hi, we're on vacation.

02:03It was supposed to be for eight days, we made it to seven days because of the hurricane so

02:09we're leaving a day early with the jet blow.

02:39Yeah I came here for vacation to reunite with family and friends.

02:56I've not been here since I was five years old and unfortunately my stay was cut short.

03:01I came on the 15th.

03:02I was meant to leave on the 29th but I'm leaving now and yes my flight was insured but I end

03:11up missing it so because one of my other friends were meant to come to join as well and I didn't

03:17want them to get stuck from Germany so I had to stay back to make sure they're okay because

03:22I don't know anyone here.

03:23I've got family but yeah so I had to see them off just not so long ago and now I'm returning

03:29and paying for a new ticket to get back to East Yorkshire north of England.

03:59So we were on vacation for like four days and we decided to wait it out and not cut the

04:13vacation because we just hoped the weather would change.

04:17It didn't change and they switched our flight four times and so now we're just hoping that

04:23they don't switch the flight again.

04:32It was a great experience until the weather, till the weather came.

04:35It was trencherous.

04:53it was French, French, French and French and French.

05:05So that you can see you in the upper right corner along the side.

05:10It was like a new video.

05:12But I'm going to go to the other side.

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