Sheryl Lee Ralph and her family are safe and praying for the sun to rise tomorrow.
The “Abbott Elementary” star on Tuesday requested prayers from his home in Jamaica as he prepared to weather the passage of Hurricane Beryl, which slammed into the island's southern coast on Wednesday night, bringing more than 12 hours of intense rain. After making landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Friday, Beryl is now classified as a tropical storm.
“Thank you all for your good vibes and prayers,” Ralph wrote in a Thursday video posted on X“We have no light, there is no electricity, but we have life.”
The actress is in Kingston to attend her son Etienne Maurice's wedding to ABC News producer Stephanie Wash. Despite the storm, the couple has not indicated that their Saturday wedding will be canceled or postponed, with Ralph saying he is “praying for the sun to come out” (he even sang that during the storm).
“Beryl’s eye cleared us out, but she’s headed elsewhere,” he continued, adding in his caption that while Kingston “didn’t take a direct hit,” Carriacou, a Caribbean island off Grenada, “needs help.”
Satellite images Images from Maxar Technologies showed swathes of Carriacou decimated by Beryl's 150-mph winds. Authorities said about 98 percent of buildings on the island and neighboring Petite Martinique had been destroyed.
“We have to rebuild from scratch,” Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said at a news conference on Thursday. instructions.
Meanwhile, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness told the CBC that while the island suffered damage to its coastline, housing infrastructure and roads, it “certainly escaped the worst of it.”
“I keep asking you to pray for others like you would pray for yourself and just put something positive out into the world because there are people who need it,” Ralph said. saying in another post on Thursday.
As of Friday afternoon, Beryl is moving northwest. The storm is expected to reach northeastern Mexico and southern Texas by the end of the weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. saying Friday.
The number of victims has risen to at least 10 people, according to the BBC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Venezuela reported three deaths each, while one person died in Jamaica.
