Jamaican Hurricane Hotel: 8 Humans, 1 Dog, 1 Cat & Endless Mops
Meet the ultimate hurricane survival squad: Ines Pacheco, her husband, their 4- and 6-year-old girls, a nanny with two kids aged 10 and 13, a gardener with a roof that’s basically a tin umbrella, plus obviously the dog and cat—all squeezed into a concrete, slab-roof fortress somewhere dangerously soggy in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains. They’ve hoarded school lunch supplies (because who doesn’t have an emergency stockpile of school lunches), mopped through continuous rain that began on Friday, and negotiated iPad time like it’s candy currency during a power-outage apocalypse. The kids have carefully rehearsed calm despite 'life-threatening floods' and chocolate-cookie-for-breakfast diplomacy. Tiny troopers or hurricane hostages? You decide.
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Nothing like surviving a raging hurricane with a squad you involuntarily share a house with, backed by the undeniable power of repurposed school lunches and mopping. Plus, toddlers terrified yet politely pretending it’s just a breezy weekend — Jamaica multi-tasking at peak drama.
If building a concrete slab prison with grandma, nanny, two kids, a gardener, dog, and cat sounds like a vacation, Hurricane Melissa just set the new airbnb standard.
They turned a Blue Mountains house into a hurricane command center featuring rationed iPad time, emergency school lunch cuisine, and an unofficial mopping contest you definitely want to lose.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 10/29/2025 | Author: Christina Daves
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