The road from Jamaica’s capital to the seaside town of Black River was known for its lush bamboo forest that formed a natural tunnel and glowed green in the bright sun.
But its famed bamboo stalks lay strewn and shredded across the road in Hurricane Melissa’s aftermath Thursday, forcing Jamaican soldiers to chop at them with machetes in a desperate bid to reopen the main route to Black River, which the government has described as the storm's “ground zero.”
