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Image source, Getty Images\/Troy Williamson<\/p>\nFor four days, I didn’t know if my family was alive – Williamsonpublished at 13:12 GMT<\/p>\n
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Troy Williamson is hoping to travel to Jamaica with a win on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The British boxer’s family hails from Jamaica and were badly caught up in the destruction of Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n
He still remembers the hollow feeling in his stomach as he refreshed his phone again and again, trying to reach his father.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Melissa had torn across the island where his father, brothers and sisters live.<\/p>\n
“When nobody could get in touch, we had no idea what had happened,” recalls Williamson. “The worst case [was] that they weren’t here any more.”<\/p>\n
For four days, the Darlington fighter heard nothing.<\/p>\n
He trained and waited, but feared the worst while images of the storm’s destruction spread across social media.<\/p>\n
“It felt like a very long time, especially when you saw how bad it was,” the 34-year-old tells BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
Eventually, a message flashed up on Facebook Messenger from his father, Gerald Atkinson, who somehow reached a wi-fi signal after the phone lines had failed.<\/p>\n
There was a sigh of relief, before reality set in.<\/p>\n
The hurricane had wiped out the house and family-run sports bar.<\/p>\n