{"id":14619,"date":"2025-10-29T03:50:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14619"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:51:40","slug":"jamaica-my-stomping-ground-from-1977-79-getting-hammered-by-the-worst-hurricane-theyve-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14619","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica &#8211; my stomping ground from 1977-&#8217;79 &#8211; getting hammered by the worst hurricane they&#8217;ve ever recorded."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This picture I took off the BBC channel &#8211; right off the television. Brigid and I know Treasure Beach very well. It is on the non-touristy south coast and it&#8217;s where we spent our so-called honeymoon (with my parents and youngest brother Phil &#8211; and Brigid&#8217;s dog Feisty&#8230;!) after our wedding in the town of Mandeville. We had met while both teaching there. The path of Hurricane Melissa put a direct hit on Treasure Beach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025_10_28-8_57-PM-Office-Lens-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025_10_28-8_57-PM-Office-Lens-1024x540.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025_10_28-8_57-PM-Office-Lens-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025_10_28-8_57-PM-Office-Lens-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025_10_28-8_57-PM-Office-Lens-1536x810.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025_10_28-8_57-PM-Office-Lens-2048x1080.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This brief report is from St. Ann&#8217;s Bay on the north coast of Jamaica, west of the well known resort Ocho Rios, and of Dunn&#8217;s River Falls. Very dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BREAKING: &#039;Monster&#039; Hurricane Melissa unleashes catastrophic impacts in Jamaica\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4SYHvCBdWfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is devastating for the island. I&#8217;m thankful it missed the Cayman Islands where we lived from 1979-&#8217;81. It would have been catastrophic. Highest point in Grand Cayman is 140&#8242;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture I took off the BBC channel &#8211; right off the television. Brigid and I know Treasure Beach very well. It is on the non-touristy south coast and it&#8217;s where we spent our so-called honeymoon (with my parents and youngest brother Phil &#8211; and Brigid&#8217;s dog Feisty&#8230;!) after our wedding in the town of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-stuff","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14621,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14619\/revisions\/14621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}