It’s time to address the elephant in the room.

By now you’ve seen and read about the devastating impact Hurricane Melissa had on Jamaica . Melissa’s Jamaica landfall was the strongest Atlantic hurricane strike in recorded history, and its minimum barometric pressure was the third lowest.

And that follows Hurricane Milton last year, which was the most intense Gulf of Mexico hurricane in recorded history. And that followed Hurricane Otis the year before, which was a tropical storm about to hit Mexico that exploded from tropical storm to Category 5 monster in one day . How does a nation prepare for that ?

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