A Montreal family can now enjoy their vacation in Jamaica, after Hurricane Beryl hit the island and continued on in its trajectory. Pascal Soucy and his family have been in Runaway Bay since Monday, just before the hurricane made landfall, and soon after were told to stay in their rooms. He says the worst of it came through on Wednesday.
“Winds started being much stronger, some physical damage to the building started to occur,” he said. “In the building where we were, on the sixth floor, the hallways got flooded. A few doors got punched through by the wind pressure.
Patio doors shattered.” On Thursday, he said the weather completely changed. “We woke up to a beautiful sunny day,” he said.
“We took a walk around the resort, we saw a lot of physical damage.” Soucy says he hopes to salvage the remaining days of his trip, after being barricaded for the first few days. “It was hard for us, but it was harder for the children and on our floor almost everybody had children,” he said.
“So for them to be stuck inside like this, hearing the rumbling outside and the wind and everything, we did our best to keep them in good spirits, but at the same time you could see on our faces that we were not comfortable with the situation.” Soucy, however, says he thinks Air Canada should have had better judgment before allowing the aircraft to take them to Jamaica before the hurricane. He says they either could have cancelled the flight Monday or offered him a refund and resc.
