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Ideation

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@myJPSonline I hear an escavator working on wellington/Munro road hit an electrical line and some of the area is without electricity @NWCjam

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@_AlbertiS I've been looking at the entire coast to see what's needed individually and community wide when rebuilding on coast. It will also have to be a new standard on the waterfront

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@_AlbertiS I understand. ,rebuilding seafront communites like Parottee and seeing what infrastructure survived and what would be needed to make other property /communities survive is hard. Groynes, breakwater, seawall, raising vulnerable coastal land, lifting the 1st floor , piling fdn.

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St Elizabeth councillors unsure about rebuilding near Black River shoreline https://t.co/VGSYswrPXc @sainty876 @HeatherPinnock @

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Black River an example of varying coastal scenarios(a) 200 year old timber house on coast 12ft ove sea level with stone seawall not maintained (c) no seawall, and (b) Building under construction, seawall 5000psi concrete fdn, bldg poured concretr with rustproofing admixture.

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She got thru after 2 hours.

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@FLOWJamaica please make it easier for your customers who have had devastation in western parishes. I have been watching my mother from Black River wait on the phone for 1.5 hours to try to suspend service to her house as she's still getting bills.

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Drone footage https://t.co/jvJBrww5j1

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Eight Rivers Solar Park Paradise Park, Westmoreland. @HeatherPinnock

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@LaLazuli_ Ruff

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I thought, no way a convoy can be 50 cars long as they passed me this evening at KFC Santa Cruz. Madness

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We will have to update the building codes, for this new paradigm. 185mph 200+ gusts

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I posted this last year with Beryl and now because of Melissa's intensity, I'm looking at it again. Whatever roofs survived last year, are gone now. Standing seam roofs in Aukendown, South sea Park and Treasure beach survived. A few Very well made Decramatic survived.

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I went down to St Bess to check on my family. I've also watched a few youtube vids of South St. E

It's hard to design economically for a Cat4+ hurricane and I've been thinking about it.
There are a few choices that eventually add up in determining how well your roof stands up

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A lot of houses had most things right & up to code and lost roofs anyway, so I'm still looking thru videos and photos to see what failed. I've seen houses with impact resistant hurricane grade windows that all blew out, fixing screws sheered and the whole window blew out.

[WIC News @WIC_News]

Before and After: The devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa on Black River, St. Elizabeth
#wicnews #hurricane #hurricanemelissa #Category5 #Jamaica

[PIK @PIK876]

So Sad , Black River is devastated

[Hester Prynne ❤️💕 @nwadeema]

Black River Anglican Church...built in the 1700s...gone. I was christened in that church. My grandmother and I used to go to church every Sunday as a child. My mom still has a certificate my grandmother got from Sunday School in 1937. 😢😢😢.

[Giovanni R. Dennis @GiovanniRDennis]

Parts of St Elizabeth

#TrackingMelissa

#HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica @CVMTV

[Giovanni R. Dennis @GiovanniRDennis]

#HappeningNow

Junction, St Elizabeth

#TrackingMelissa

#HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica @CVMTV