My heart goes out to Jamaica

[LinvilleGorge]

Having gone through Helene in western NC, I can't even begin to imagine what they're about to go through. They're talking about western NC Helene type rainfall amounts and flooding and then add in class 5 hurricane winds on top of that. Seems like that island is gonna get razed to the ground because during Helene we really didn't have that bad of wind until near the end of the storm and even then it wasn't nothing crazy. Basically just a run of the mill windy day type of wind and still yet trees were going down all over the place. Sounded like a warzone outside from all the trees falling because the ground was so saturated. They're about to go through pure hell and my heart goes out to them. All the people talking about how the whole island should've been evacuated are dumbasses who can't even begin to grasp the logistics of evacuating and island of 3 million people.

[Paa Langfart]

Me and swmbo been talking about this today.  I really feel bad for what those folks are and will be going through.  I was last there close to 40 years ago but I bet it hasn't changed all that much.  The majority of the folks living there then were 3rd world poor and losing what little they have is going to be extremely hard for them.