{"id":111313,"date":"2025-10-30T01:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/111313\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:06:06","slug":"hurricane-melissa-drone-footage-shows-destroyed-homes-and-towns-under-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/111313\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Melissa drone footage shows destroyed homes and towns under water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Tuesday as a category five storm in Jamaica, where thousands of people remain without power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It was the strongest storm to have hit the country, with sustained winds of 185mph  (298kph).<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">St Elizabeth and Montego Bay are among the worst impacted places in Jamaica, and drone footage shows streets under water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">From Jamaica, the storm travelled north to Cuba, bringing with it 115mph (185kph) winds and heavy rain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cvgvexdjp1xt\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Tuesday as a category five storm in Jamaica, where thousands of people remain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-111313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}