Hurricane Beryl destroys homes, uproots trees in Grenada
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Hurricane Beryl uprooted palm trees in St. Patrick, Grenada, July 2, 2024. This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken on July 5, 2024, and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Beryl over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Beryl is the first Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic Ocean in June. (NOAA via AP) A boat damaged by Hurricane Beryl lays on its side at a dock in Kingston, Jamaica, July 4, 2024.
The extent of Hurricane Beryl's damage became clearer Friday, as communications were reestablished with the small, storm-ravaged eastern Caribbean islands and relief began to arrive.
The Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with Soyuz MS-26 space ship blasts off in the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sept. 11, 2024. (Ivan Timoshenko, Roscosmos space corporation, via AP) Expedition 72 crew members include NASA astronaut Don Pettit, left, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, right, pose on Sept. 10, 2024, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
Musalia Piti, a herder, looks after his camels in Lekiji Village, Laikipia county, Kenya, on July 26, 2024. His family lost 50 cattle during a drought and decided to invest in camels. Lesian Ole Sempere, a Samburu elder, poses for a photograph outside his house in Lekiji Village, Laikipia county, Kenya, on July 26, 2024.