but comparitively, not near the dead of Katrina, when W was attending a birthday party in Texas, and missed the whole thing......on his return to Washington the next day, he flew over it, but didn't stop.........

The death toll was somewhere north of 1800 people..............

Did any places at all just have minor damage? Or does the whole island look like the coast?

It’s hard to process

Is Jamaica on its own, or does its government have any help in the americas?

I imagine how you feel. When I returned after Milton last year my area looked like a war zone. People still don't have their houses back together.

The US has provided helicopters and personnel for drop offs plus $22m in assistance.
There are a few areas with nothing - homes gone, no power, no water, no food.
We never even lost power or water.
Our rural folks - rich and poor took this hit. I don’t know where will will put all this debris.

I hope the homeless get temporary housing. It's often the case that followup news isn't done as a news practice and so people lose awareness. So thank you so much for the info.

Keep the faith.

Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/15/hurricane-melissa-a-real-time-case-study-of-colonialisms-legacies

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At the ongoing UN Cop30 climate change conference in Brazil, campaigners say that devastated regions such as Hanover as well as others across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti, are stark examples of how African descendants are disproportionately affected by centuries of environmental degradation.

“The research shows that wherever Afro descendants are located, they are most vulnerable to climate and environmental impact and have been suffering from historical environmental injustice and climate injustice,” she said. “Climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice. The same systems that enriched the north created today’s vulnerabilities.”

The Global Afrodescendant Climate Justice Collaborative, where Williams is a senior adviser, is among hundreds of human rights groups and environmentalists that urged Cop30 to put reparations on the agenda.

In their open letter they argue that “global warming began with the Industrial Revolutions that were made possible by the resources provided by imperialism, colonialism and enslavement, [and] that colonialism and enslavement skewed the global economy in favour of the material and financial interests in the global north”.

That probably no longer holds under Hegseth and his boss's loyalty brass.

After the industrial revolution was earlier funded by human slave trafficking (which was the actual beginning of capitalism) and the earlier corporate imperial colonialism (huge corporate takeovers of both slave and resource trade -- see Dutch East India Company, and then later, England's Royal African Company) the 20th Century climate dynamics of fossil fuel burning is now hitting most equatorial countries. They've suffered for centuries on more than one front.

Rec

And our creeps will do as little as possible.

The Blackriver Hospital