The environment affects humans more than you realize, Jamaica is a very hurricane prone area, and is so small that a single hurricane can literally run right over it, so houses built like this are also better to get through a hurricane in. People living on the coast have started building their houses on stilts, because ocean water from hurricanes or even just waves from wind would otherwise engulf their houses. That is how people in Jamaica have adjusted to their environment.People in Jamaica have not altered their environment as much as you'd think they may have to. Other than changing the ways their houses were built as said before they have left it how it was. Cities have rose up along the coast and some further into
