Location Union Island, the Caribbean
Disaster Hurricane Beryl
Roseman Adams, a nature conservation officer and part of the island’s disaster preparedness committee, was at home on Union Island when Hurricane Beryl hit on 2 July. It was the earliest-forming category 5 hurricane on record, demolishing almost all of the buildings on the island of 2,500 people. The climate crisis is making hurricanes ever more intense and destructive.
When we started feeling the force of the wind, I saw my neighbour’s boat lift up out of his yard and head towards the sky; it spun and flipped and fell back over the bank. Then I saw trees start falling, fences breaking.
