KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Jay McIntosh lives in Kalamazoo, but his heart and his mind are focused 1,733 miles south.
“There’s aunts and uncles I haven’t spoke to in a week, since last Monday. It’s definitely tough,” he told News 8.
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McIntosh’s family lives in Jamaica, in communities like Trelawny and Westmoreland on the west side of the island, towns battered by Hurricane Melissa ferocious winds and unrelenting rain.
“Right now in Jamaica, it’s hard to get to certain parts,” McIntosh said he was told. “The roads are flooded, still up to people’s thighs. You can’t pass through in traffic. When you think of Negril, it’s not the most access to food right now. The supermarkets are running out of food.”…