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Yes Texas, but also Jamaica & Grenada
Hurricane Beryl was the strongest early-season hurricane in history
Eric Holthaus
July 28, 2024
It took nearly a month, but power is finally back in the Houston area as cleanup continues from Hurricane Beryl — which struck the Texas coast as a Category 1 back on July 8th.
Beryl was a ‘warning shot’ for Houston, writes the Texas Observer’s Dylan Baddour — the city’s first direct strike by a hurricane in more than 10 years.
More than a million people lost power across Southeast Texas for nearly a week.
As July winds to a close and hurricane season kicks into full gear, I would also like to remind everyone that Beryl was also one of the worst hurricane ever to pass through the Caribbean. Grenada and Jamaica will be struggling to recover for years.
In her newsletter, Possibilities, Yessenia Funes makes a powerful case for climate reparations for exactly this kind of inequity that hurricane too often magnify.
If you would like to support our neighbors in the Caribbean, you can donate directly to the Grenada Red Cross or the Jamaica Red Cross — and also to the Grenada Fund for Conservation or the American Friends of Jamaica.
May you have good weather,
Eric
P.S. We’re still looking for newsletter writers in Washington, D.C., Austin, TX, and Sydney, Australia — if you’re a weather nerd living in one of those places and love talking about it (or you know someone in those cities who is), you’d be a perfect fit! Email me: [email protected] to apply!
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