It is not unlikely that the swiftness with which Hurricane Beryl came and went may have, in the minds of observers, lessened the condition of ruin and devastation which it left behind. It is only after a physical assessment of the extent of the damage and how this translates into actual costs that a real impact can be appreciated. In its Sunday November 24 issue, the Jamaica Gleaner sought to do just that by transforming the physical extent of damage into ‘dollars and cents,’ a pursuit that helps to underscore the true extent of the damage that this devastating natural disaster left on the its victims in the region.