PAROTTEE, St Elizabeth — Recounting how her then four-year-old grandson had to be stuffed inside a fridge as refuge from Hurricane Melissa seven months ago, 81-year-old Beautina Roach is among the residents of Parottee who are not taking any chances this hurricane season.

“The water came to the window height and everything washed out of the house. We can’t stay here. When the sea came over you could just walk and pick up all kinds of fish…We had to put this little one [boy] in a fridge,” she said while pointing to her now five-year-old grandson last Friday.

A short distance from Roach’s house, Dahlia Graham recounted leaving Parottee with her spouse and five children ages 10, eight, seven, six, and five, two days before the Category Five storm made landfall last October, and sought shelter at Newell High School.