Cleanup began in Jamaica Thursday morning as the last vestiges of powerful Hurricane Beryl pulled away overnight, leaving roofless homes, flooded buildings, blocked roads and extensive power outages.

Beryl, which finally weakened to a Category 3 overnight, was nearly finished thrashing the Cayman Islands Thursday morning as it headed for its next landfall on the Yucatan peninsula Friday — likely as a Category 1 hurricane.

Its imminent Caribbean exit is welcome news for the many islands smacked by the history-making hurricane. At least seven are dead in the eastern Caribbean, where Beryl first made landfall on Monday and leveled some small islands with “98% destruction.”

Even the outermost bands of Beryl were enough to cause power outages and road closures in the Dominican Republic, but the harder hit was on Jamaica’s southern coast, which got brushed by the northern eyewall of the at-the-time Category 4 hurricane.

Jamaicans woke up Thursday to downed power lines in Portmore, trees blocking the highway in Manchester and in south St. Elizabeth: knee-high flood waters, wet furniture and ripped-off roofs.

Hurricane Beryl left a trail of destruction in southern parishes where Machester and St. Elizabeth bore the brunt of Beryl’s powerful winds and rain before the hurricane warning was lifted shortly before midnight and a flash flood watch went into effect.

Part of the roof of the Norman Manley International Airport near Kingston was ripped off, along with roofs of homes and buildings nearby. Around 400,000 customers were without electricity overnight Wednesday, the Jamaica Public Service Company told the Jamaica Gleaner.

Next stop: Mexico

As of the 8 a.m. update, Beryl was packing 120 mph sustained winds and headed west-northwest at 20 mph. It was about 385 miles east-southeast of Tulum, Mexico.

The latest forecast track from the National Hurricane Center steers Beryl over the Yucatan and into the Gulf of Mexico, where it’s expected to re-strengthen a bit before making yet another landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near the border of Mexico and Texas.

“While the hurricane has been an over-performer so far, this magnitude of shear should cause notable weakening over the next day or so, but Beryl is expected to still be a hurricane near the Yucatan tomorrow,” forecasters said in the 5 a.m. discussion.