Venus Deathtrap

I just like words.

[Venus Deathtrap @gabsi77]

I will never miss a next carnival again 🫶🏽🥰✨

[Venus Deathtrap @gabsi77]

Come and move with me this week 💖

[Penguin Books USA @penguinusa]

250 years ago today, Jane Austen was born. We’re celebrating her today, both for the incredible classics she wrote and the formidable generations of writers that those classics went on to inspire ❤️📚

[Goodreads @goodreads]

Happy birthday, Jane Austen! 🎂🩷 250 years and we're still not over Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, & one of the best opening lines in all of literature

[Venus Deathtrap @gabsi77]

Come and move with me this week 💖✨

[Venus Deathtrap @gabsi77]

Come and move with me this week if you're in Kingston, Jamaica 💖

[Venus Deathtrap @gabsi77]

This week's class schedule if you're in Kingston, Jamaica. Check (IG) @pilatesbygabbie for weekly updates 💖

[Venus Deathtrap @gabsi77]

@The_Badger_jm That's absurd. I may never leave my yard again if this is life.

[Venus Deathtrap @gabsi77]

I've been in Kingston for two days in the last three and a half weeks. What is going on with the traffic situation?!

Just took 2+ hours from Dunrobin to Mona 😭

[🍉 Sam Hay @quoteoftheshay]

🙏🏽🇯🇲 Please consider donating to Jamaica's hurricane relief funds:
https://t.co/rse5uclksq
https://t.co/pWqxJF5cV6

[Jamaica Gleaner @JamaicaGleaner]

Telecommunications company Flow says mobile services are now back online in Savanna-La-Mar, Westmoreland, one of the most affected sites in the parish, following the passage of Hurricane Melissa.

Read more: https://t.co/fnBE4Mjp0b #GLNRToday

[Floyd Green @floydgreenja]

Hope Beyond Melissa 💛

Starting tomorrow, free therapy and support sessions begin across South West St. Elizabeth, alongside ongoing care package distributions and meal support for those affected by Hurricane Melissa.

Nov 3 | 9 AM – 4 PM
Don’s Motor World & Newell High School

[likkle short skirt @firelordmaria]

dm or comment if you’re interested 🥺💕 it’ll be in Spanish Town!

[G. Clauze @1clauze]

I need three people with offroad trucks for a relief run to SavLaMar tomorrow.. we have JCF and JDF protection and we are handing out 2000 meals prepared and ready. Please reach out to me asap if you or anyone you know can help

[Dr. Chris Tufton @christufton]

You’ve been asking how you can help.
Start here. 🇯🇲

After Hurricane Melissa, our hospitals are struggling and blood supplies are dangerously low.

Your donation doesn’t just help, it saves lives. 🩸

[Josh Morgerman @iCyclone]

Man. #Hurricane #MELISSA. Incredible power. Perhaps the mightiest hurricane of the 83 I've witnessed.

My location (Crawford, a tiny beach town in St. Elizabeth Parish #Jamaica) took the full force of the inner right eyewall and may have seen the peak winds in this historic, record-smashing hurricane.

First pic: as it started to get scary. Bone-rattling gusts were making roofs explode into clouds of lethal confetti. The grand palm tree out front was starting to bend obscenely—in a way I found unnatural.

Second pic: after we bolted the door shut because it was getting too dangerous even to watch the storm. (I'd randomly ended up in the hotel's kitchen with a local family.)

The hurricane's inner eyewall was a screaming white void. All I could see through the cracks in the shutters was the color white—accompanied by a constant, ear-splitting scream that actually caused pain. (Notice the woman in the pic holding her ears.) The scream occasionally got higher and angrier, and those extra-screechy screams made my eardrums pulse. Meanwhile, water was forcing in through every crack—under the floor and between the window slats.

I remember shuddering at the thought of what was happening to the town—what this screaming white void was doing to people, homes, communities.

My fears were well-founded. The impact in this part of coastal St. Elizabeth Parish is catastrophic. Wooden structures were completely mowed down and in some cases swept from their foundations. Some concrete structures collapsed. The well-built ones—like my hotel—survived, but even they had major roof, window, and door damage. The landscape has been stripped bare—the trees just sticks. The roads are blocked with rubble and utility poles.

Nearby Black River—a unique old historical town right on the water—was smashed beyond recognition: historical sites destroyed, main streets filled with rubble, the town market twisted like a pretzel, even the regional hospital destroyed.

It's a good thing I wasn't in my hotel room during the storm because one of the windows blew out, showering the bed with glass and wood. The hotel lost most of its roof, and several third-story rooms were smashed open. But in the lower flooors, those grand old concrete walls protected us. And so far I'm aware of only two deaths in Crawford—a fellow who had a heart attack at the school next door (his body was still in his car and unclaimed the next morning, a sad and disturbing sight), and a woman who drowned in the storm surge in Gallon Beach. While walking down the devastated streets of Black River, I ran into the Jamaican Member of Parliament for this region, @floydgreenja. He's a great dude and I appreciate that he already has a gameplan for turning this catastrophe into an opportunity—to build this region back better. And I vowed on the spot that I'm going to make it my mission to spread awareness of this catastrophe and get that aid flowing in. I'll be talking about MELISSA a lot over the coming months—because it is both a fascinating meteorological event and a human disaster that demands an international response. (And I swear an epic video is coming out of this.)

[darylvazmp @darylvazmp]

🚨 #Update I am aware that videos showing One Wing of the MBJ Airport has been used to assume that the entire airport was destroyed.

Please understand that MBJ is our largest airport and has 19 gates. The video used by the Weather Channel shows damage to a wing of the airport, smallest wing, housing Gates 1-5. #HurricaneMelissa @VanDamCNN @marthakelner @weatherchannel

[schrödinger's gender @brotherpaw_]

Please also consider donating to WE Change Jamaica, who is also raising funds for LBQ+ womxn and trans folks in Jamaica https://t.co/1jPxCUkAkn

[Shantay Foster 💜📚 @mindofshantay]

It's time to unite on our road to recovery. Please share any volunteer efforts that you know of 🙏🏽

[Randy T. Rowe @RTRowe]

There will likely be many scams in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
Ensure that anyone you know donating knows that this is the official platform from the Government of Jamaica.
https://t.co/8WHGynHb4x