Hurricane Beryl grows to Category 5 strength as it razes southeast Caribbean islands

Hurricane Beryl has already caused devastation on smaller islands in the southeastern Caribbean.late Monday after it ripped doors, windows and roofs off homes across the southeastern Caribbean with devastating winds and storm surge fueled by the Atlantic's record warmth.

Streets from St. Lucia island south to Grenada were strewn with shoes, trees, downed power lines and other debris. Banana trees were snapped in half and cows lay dead in green pastures with homes made of tin and plywood tilting precariously nearby. Beryl was about 445 miles east-southeast of Isla Beata in the Dominican Republic and was moving west-northwest at 22 mph . A hurricane warning was in effect for Jamaica, and a tropical storm warning for the southern coast of Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Grenada officials had to evacuate patients to a lower floor after hospital roof was damaged, he said. He said by phone that it’s the first time he has experienced a hurricane — he and his family have been praying, as well as taking calls from concerned friends and family as far away as India.Beryl strengthened from a tropical depression to a major hurricane in just 42 hours, which only six other Atlantic hurricanes have done, with Sept. 1 as the previous earliest date, according to hurricane expert Sam Lillo.

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