“When we arrived in Carriacou, we saw everything completely destroyed,” reportsGonzalo Velasco of the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) system.
This sobering summary could well have come from any small island on Hurricane Beryl’s path as it transformed from a tropical storm to a major hurricane in less than 48 hours.
This rapid change in intensity left Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the countries on its most direct path, with little time to prepare for its 1 July landfall as the earliest category 4 hurricane ever recorded.
Beryl was only the second storm of what’s expected to be a highly active season, with up to 25 named storms.
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