Jamaica braces for catastrophic impact

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Storm chaser Bryce Shelton reported live on AccuWeather Early from Treasure Beach, Jamaica, as the island braces for the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Melissa.

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00:00can you just explain how conditions are right now yes so actually i had to leave treasure beach

00:06because conditions were deteriorating so bad and the shelters there were not optimal for what is

00:11coming i was definitely going to try to ride it out there but it did not seem like the safest

00:16option so now i'm a few miles inland kind of in between santa cruz and mandeville right now

00:21now what have you seen so far certainly we've already seen devastating flash flooding across

00:28parts of hispaniola we've seen flooding in the kingston area you talked about the loss of power

00:33how about the rain and flooding situation have you encountered any of that thus far

00:38yeah definitely on my drive out of treasure beach it was it was less than optimal there was a lot

00:46of flooding and as you got closer to the higher terrain you started seeing some of the rocks

00:50starting to slide up the mountains already bryce obviously you're a storm chaser it comes with your

00:55title have you ever been in a storm like this what are you anticipating no i have never been in a

01:04cat five before but i've been in several high-end cat fours so i'm expecting it to be obviously worse

01:10than that but the aftermath here in jamaica is going to be the big story with this one i do believe

01:16can you speak of what you've seen so far as far as infrastructure and your experience on what damage

01:27the infrastructure is going to be encountering

01:30yeah so a lot of the buildings here are actually concrete which is great for riding out a hurricane

01:36but a lot of the buildings here don't have actual windows i noticed that when i got to treasure beach

01:43that the place that i picked out didn't have legit windows it was just an open air type of situation

01:50with plyboard over it of course but even late last night this morning the plyboard was getting ripped off

01:57already

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