Canadian tourists holed up in hotel conference room
After their flight home from Jamaica on Sunday was cancelled, Stephanie Brayford and her family are now sheltering in place in a hotel conference room in Negril on the island’s west coast.
The storm is “nothing like anything I’ve experienced,” Brayford told CBC News Network host Andrew Nichols.
“And I have experienced a tornado,” she said. “The winds just take your breath away.”
Brayford said hotel staff tried to board up the entrance to protect the building from the intense winds, but the boards “were gone within hours of putting them up.”
For now, she said, she and her family are safe, holing up with other guests in the conference room while sleeping on deck chair cushions.
But when they’ll be able to make it back home to Canada remains to be seen.