Melissa Hutchinson Malcolm, who broke her leg while trying to secure her mother’s home as Hurricane Melissa bore down on the west of Jamaica, walks with crutches last Wednesday in her storm-ravaged Hanover community. (Photos: Garfield Robinson)
WHEN Hurricane Melissa battered Jamaica two Tuesdays ago, a woman with the same name found herself caught in its fury.
In fact, the woman — Melissa Hutchinson Malcolm — broke her right leg while trying to help secure her mother’s house in Jericho, Hanover, which had an attached shop. As she recounted the moments leading up to her injury, Hutchinson Malcolm laughed at the irony of being maimed by her namesake, but expressed gratitude that she is alive to tell the tale.
“I went to help [my mother] and the building collapsed [with] me and my two sons, my mother, and three other persons.
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