Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica
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Orcabessa Bay is a small town in the Saint Mary Parish, located in the northeast part of the island. It is home to 7,000 people. The town also houses the GoldenEye Villa, a retreat that previously was the private home and beach of Ian Fleming, a British author best known for creating the James Bond series.
Melissa is expected to strengthen from a tropical storm into a major hurricane this weekend, bringing “life-threatening and catastrophic” flash flooding and landslides to the Caribbean.
With power down, problems with communications and navigating parts of the island treacherous, the authorities in Jamaica have not yet been able to give a detailed assessment of the damage inflicted by Hurricane Melissa. But the devastating impact of the Category 5 storm on communities is starting to be revealed by satellite imagery.
HUNDREDS of Brit tourists are trapped in Jamaica as a category five storm with “potentially unimaginable impact” barrels towards the island. Hurricane Melissa is expected to bring
Hurricane Melissa is so severe that even hurricane tracking weather planes have been forced to avoid the storm.