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[ESPN New York @ESPNNewYork]

ICYMI: The New York Knicks are NBA Champions, as called by @LT__Murray and @McNuttMonica !

Thank you to all of the incredible fans for listening to @ESPNNewYork this season. Your home of the NBA Champions.

[NBA @NBA]

"The bag's undefeated... It's one of the greatest clothing articles in the history of basketball!" 🏆👜

KAT walks off with the @nbafinalstrophy and shouts out fiancée Jordyn Woods' bag!

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

START SPREADING THE NEWS‼️

NEW YORK IS BACK ON TOP 🏆

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

for the boroughs and Knicks fans around the world 🏆

[NBA @NBA]

Karl-Anthony Towns taking it all in.

The former No. 1 pick is now an NBA CHAMPION 🏆

[Natz @natzjam67]

Within seconds. I don't play about my siblings

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Be honest for a second: If your sibling called you at 3am and said “don’t ask questions, just come” Are you actually showing up?

[Natz @natzjam67]

1 Bunny 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[Manchester City Women @ManCityWomen]

✨1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣✨

Bunny Shaw has become the first women’s player to score 100 goals for Manchester City in our professional era 🩵

[Natz @natzjam67]

I need some help. I know a church group in the US wanting to ship things to those in need in the western parishes. How do they go about doing it? What's the process? Which entity should it be addressed to? @Gordonswaby @BwoyaTingz @KemeshaSwaby

[Floyd Green @floydgreenja]

#Update You can get to Westmoreland via Luana- Brompton- Sandy Ground- Border and through to Whitehouse.

[YouTube : XOXO Denille Rene @denillerene_]

Here’s an opportunity to send 2 barrels home at a good rate with FREE delivery to affected parishes listed.

RT RT RT

[Natz @natzjam67]

This!

[Kemesha Kelly Swaby @KemeshaSwaby]

I had a great conversation with someone who has worked in emergency responses around the world (think some of the worst conflict zones and natural disasters - anywhere on earth).
He was in Haiti, and the first thing he shared was how Haiti was teeming with cameras and media.

[Natz @natzjam67]

Not S E St. Elizabeth

[thedot @mannishwaata]

I fear the same thing that happened last year with Treasure Beach getting all the attention is happening again.
This time St. E/Black River is getting plenty attention but not St. James, Westmoreland and Hanover.

[Natz @natzjam67]

💔

[C.A.Clarke™️ @ChrissyRoyalty]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
My neighbor survived Hurricane Melissa but he was epileptic, last night he had a seizure, the area has no electricity or WiFi, they had no idea the roads were cleared to go Sav hospital. HE DIED!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

GRANGE HILL, WESTMORELAND

[Josh Morgerman @iCyclone]

The terrific force of a Cat 5. #Hurricane #MELISSA's winds and storm threw a boat, car, & building together in a brutal mashup. This is in the Galleon Beach neighborhood of Crawford #Jamaica.

[Natz @natzjam67]

This broke me 💔

[Kads @kadeen__]

📍Lacovia, St Elizabeth

[WeatherNation @WeatherNation]

Josh Morgerman @iCyclone has resurfaced after experiencing Category 5 winds in St. Elizabeth Parish in Jamaica. The horrors of Hurricane #Melissa will continue to unravel in the days and years to come.

[Natz @natzjam67]

The stories 🥹

[Josh Morgerman @iCyclone]

I listened to so many inspiring tales of survival in Crawford #Jamaica today. The common threat: everyday people doing their best in an insane situation: the core of Cat-5 #Hurricane #MELISSA.

* Keith ("Benji") Carey survived the storm surge in a tiny cement building on the waterfront, basically at sea level (!!!) in Gallon Beach. He did it by floating on a piece of Styrofoam and clutching the doorframe as waves crashed into the room. At the height of the storm, he could touch the ceiling. (He will evacuate as advised next time.)

* Desrine Dellop, who survived the storm surge with Benji, gave me a tour of her devastated Gallon Beach neighborhood. Here she is in front of her now roofless house. I was inspired by her calm vibe, despite what she's just been through.

* When Trishanna Givens' apartment blew apart from the force of the wind, she rushed around the building to seek shelter in the lounge in the front. As she put the key in the lock, the wind threw her with such force that the key broke off and she was scraped and bruised all over her body. She rode out the height of the storm curled in a ball against the downwind wide of the building, under a piece of construction material.

* Sylvester & Victolyn Atherton own the High Way Restaurant across the street from my hotel. When the roof tore off, they sought shelter under a concrete table. Fortunately, they got through it uninjured.

Thank you all for these tales of strength and survival! 👊

[Natz @natzjam67]

@jamccl_ Hi my parents house in St. E. I can't DM you

[Natz @natzjam67]

This Is us 🇯🇲🇯🇲

[Natz @natzjam67]

My Sainty💔

[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.)