{"id":30583,"date":"2025-11-02T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/30583\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:30:07","slug":"people-arriving-in-miami-from-jamaica-tell-of-horrible-devastation-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/30583\/","title":{"rendered":"People arriving in Miami from Jamaica tell of horrible devastation, destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM<\/p>\n<p>Flights from Jamaica begin arriving in Miami following Hurricane Melissa <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 As Jamaica\u2019s airports have been reopening following Hurricane Melissa, those with Jamaican ties are making their way back to Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some told stories about the destruction the Category 5 storm left in its wake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people on the street,\u201d one woman told Local 10 News after arriving at Miami International Airport. \u201cThey\u2019re hungry, they have nowhere to sleep. It\u2019s just total devastation. It\u2019s unlike anything I have ever seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She said photographs making their way off the island only tell part of the story. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSeeing it in person, it\u2019s completely different,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s complete devastation. Where I am from, in St. Elizabeth, we took some of the hardest hits. I\u2019m talking about leveled. The communities are totally leveled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another traveler said she was visiting her mom, who lost everything she owned to the storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou have lots of families on the roadside,\u201d she said. \u201cThey don\u2019t have anywhere to live. No food. They lost their clothes and everything is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Brett Knese\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d3b079d0-0444-499b-8cb7-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brett Knese<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Brett Knese joined the Local 10 News team as a general assignment reporter in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM Flights from Jamaica begin arriving in Miami following Hurricane Melissa MIAMI \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-30583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}