Hurricane Beryl sinks the famous Jolly Roger party cruiser

MEXICO CITY.- “Beryl”, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, which made landfall in the isla Carriacoupart of Granada, this morning, with category 4, has caused great damage.

He Jolly Rogera popular party cruiser, sank in Bridgetown, Barbados, in the wake of the storm.

Described as the The biggest and best party cruise in the Caribbeanthe cruiser might not withstand the force of “Beryl”, described by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) as an “extremely dangerous” hurricane with “life-threatening” storm surges and winds.

Fallen trees, destroyed roofs, are some of the damage that “Beryl” has left in Carriacou.

Videos from local media have been showing the impact of very strong winds, particularly in Barbados, the easternmost of the Windward Islands (archipelago of the Lesser Antilles), where the hurricane, with gusts of up to 200 kilometres per hour, is expected to make itself felt strongly during the day.

Beryl, a threat to the Caribbean

In BridgetownCars lined up all weekend at gas stations, while supermarkets and grocery stores were packed with people looking for food, water and other supplies.

Barbados, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Tobago are under hurricane warning and a tropical storm warning is in effect in Martinique, Dominica and Trinidad.

In Tobagothe smaller of the two islands that make up Trinidad and Tobago, has declared a state of emergency and ordered schools closed “until further notice,” according to the island’s head of government, Farley Augustine.

Civil protection authorities of Guatemala raised the state alert on Monday due to the “approach” of hurricane “Beryl”.

The National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conred) indicated that the alert went from yellow to orange, according to its scale in emergency situations.

The scale specifies that a yellow alert is equivalent to prevention, while an orange alert warns of danger, second only to red, which is equivalent to the highest level of emergency. According to the same state entity, an orange alert also means the mobilization of resources in response to a possible “emergency or disaster.”

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