Mayreu is one of the smallest inhabited islands of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Hurricane Beryl razed it, ripping up the roofs of schools, destroying homes and stripping trees of almost every leaf along the 1.2 square kilometers of this island of about 360 people. Beryl moved over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Friday after battering the resort town of Tulum. The storm prepared to reemerge in the Gulf of Mexico, prompting Texas officials to urge coastal residents to prepare as it heads their way. Beryl is the earliest storm to develop into a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic. It caused at least 11 deaths as it passed through the Caribbean.
