{"id":232851,"date":"2025-10-29T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232851\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:24:09","slug":"hurricane-melissa-drone-footage-shows-destroyed-homes-and-towns-under-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232851\/","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":232852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-232851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}