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Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa

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Hurricane Melissa live updates: Category 5 storm threatens Jamaica with devastation

The storm is due to make landfall early Tuesday.

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Hurricane Melissa tracker: Jamaica orders residents to evacuate as tropical storm sweeps across Caribbean

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Hurricane Melissa poses "catastrophic" threat to Caribbean: Jamaica braces for direct hit

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Hurricane Melissa begins lashing Jamaica as Category 5 storm

Hurricane Melissa began lashing Jamaica with violent gusts on Monday (October 27) as the U.S. National Hurricane Center upgraded it to a Category 5 storm packing sustained winds of 165 mph, the larges...

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Hurricane Melissa UPDATES: Foreign Office statement as Brits face deadly storm

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Hurricane Melissa could be strongest ever to hit Jamaica

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Hurricane Forecasters Warn Melissa Could Be ‘Potentially Catastrophic’ for Jamaica

He said the combination of the slow moving system and rainfall in excess of three feet “is going to create a catastrophic event” for Jamaica.

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Jamaica braces as rapidly intensifying Hurricane Melissa creeps toward island

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See Hurricane Melissa path, spaghetti models. Florida impacts?

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South Florida groups prepare aid shipments for Caribbean as family members grapple with Hurricane Melissa impacts

"It is more than kind of distressing because you don't know when and you don't know how," said Ewan Simpson, who lives in Jamaica.

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‘I’m going to lose everything’: Jamaica farmers dread approach of Hurricane Melissa

There is never a good time for a catastrophic hurricane to hit. But for Junior Ebanks, a farmer on Jamaica’s southern coast, Hurricane Melissa’s timing could not be worse.

FOX 2 Detroit

As Hurricane Melissa nears Jamaica, Detroiters with connections there wait - and worry

"We’re talking about a major storm that is 50 times the size of Jamaica, it’s going to sweep everything. I tell you, people are going to die."