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The devastation from Hurricane Melissa came into focus after the record-setting storm moved past Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba with at least 33 deaths and almost $8 billion of damage in its wake.

Across the Caribbean, the storm’s powerful winds have torn apart homes and buildings, blocked roads, trapped people on roofs and knocked out electricity. ...Read more

Hurricane Melissa pulled away from Cuba on Wednesday morning, leaving a trail of devastation that stretched through Cuba’s second most populous region and Jamaica, where it was the strongest storm to ever strike the island nation. Now, it continues its devastating path through the Bahamas.

The storm has a confirmed death toll of at least 27, ...Read more

Hurricane Melissa hit much of Jamaica hard. The country’s all-important tourism industry will likely suffer, too, as damage assessments are made over the coming days.

While it’s too early to know the full impact of Melissa, Montego Bay was underwater on Wednesday and infrastructure was damaged. The city is the home to several resorts and ...Read more

No, there weren’t schools of sharks circling in resort pools in Jamaica. No, a commercial plane didn’t get a bird’s eye view above the center of the storm. And no, there weren’t crowds swimming in Hurricane Melissa’s floodwaters on the streets.

While damage reports coming out of Cuba and Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa are awful, some...Read more

As a powerful Hurricane Melissa continued its destructive path through the Caribbean and into the Atlantic on Wednesday, Jamaica began the arduous task of trying to assess what one United Nations official described as “tremendous and unprecedented devastation” across the island.

“We have people living in shelters across the country, and ...Read more

Hurricane Melissa barreled over eastern Cuba on Wednesday as a powerful Category 3 storm, bringing torrential rainfall and heavy flooding to the eastern provinces after making landfall near Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second-largest city.

Although the government had not yet been able to assess the damage hours after the storm left the ...Read more

At least 20 people are dead in Haiti and another dozen are missing after a river in the town of Petit-Goâve, southwest of Port-au-Prince, flooded as Hurricane Melissa bombarded the country with heavy rain as it battered nearby Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm.

Emmanuel Pierre, the head of the Haitian Office of Civil Protection, told the ...Read more

Hurricane Melissa pulled away from Cuba on Wednesday morning, leaving a trail of devastation that stretched through Cuba’s second most populous region and Jamaica, where it was the strongest storm to ever strike the island nation. Next in its sights is the Bahamas.

The storm has a confirmed death toll of at least 27, mostly in Haiti, where ...Read more

Hurricane Melissa pulled away from Cuba on Wednesday morning, leaving a trail of devastation that stretched through Cuba’s second most populous region and Jamaica, where it was the strongest storm to ever strike the island nation. Next in its sights is the Bahamas.

In Jamaica, Prime Minister Andrew Holness issued a disaster declaration not ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is pledging that the United States will help the island nations of the Caribbean on a “humanitarian basis” as Hurricane Melissa continues to ravage the area.

“We’re watching it closely, and we’re prepared to move,” the president told reporters on Air Force One as he traveled to South Korea. “...Read more

Hurricane Melissa barreled over eastern Cuba on Wednesday morning as a powerful Category 3 storm, bringing torrential rainfall and heavy flooding to the island’s eastern provinces after making landfall near Santiago de Cuba, the second-largest city.

The hurricane’s center struck near the coastal town of Chivirico in the municipality of Guam...Read more

After ravaging Jamaica most of Tuesday, Hurricane Melissa made its second landfall around 3 a.m. in Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane.

The National Hurricane Center said Melissa came ashore in Santiago de Cuba with 120 mph winds, marking the strongest storm to make landfall in Cuba since Hurricane Irma in 2017. It’s expected to bring up to 20 ...Read more

When catastrophic Hurricane Dorian became the strongest storm ever to hit The Bahamas six years ago, submerging the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama under floodwaters, the U.S. government was among the most generous of responders.

Washington, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, deployed search-and-rescue teams, airlifted ...Read more

MIAMI — As Hurricane Melissa crept toward the St. Elizabeth parish of Jamaica, South Florida leaders gathered Tuesday morning to encourage residents to give what they can as soon as possible.

“Here we are, not waiting to hear that our help is needed,” said Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava at a press conference at the Global ...Read more

Jason Walker remembers the last time Jamaica faced a storm this powerful.

It was September 1988 when Hurricane Gilbert — a Category 5 monster — ripped across the island, flattening crops, destroying homes and cutting power for weeks. At least 45 people died and hundreds of thousands were left homeless.

Walker and his family were among the ...Read more

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa officially made landfall on Jamaica Tuesday morning as the most powerful hurricane to ever strike the island, as well as the third-strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic.

The National Hurricane Center formally declared landfall — when half the eye of a storm is over land — at 1 p.m. in the town of New...Read more

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa officially made landfall on Jamaica on Tuesday morning as the most powerful hurricane to ever strike the island, as well as the third-strongest hurricane to ever form in the Atlantic.

The National Hurricane Center formally declared landfall — when half the eye of a storm is over land — at 1 p.m. in the town of ...Read more

Hurricane Melissa remained a fearsome Category 5 storm with 175 mph winds early Tuesday morning, just hours ahead of what will be a catastrophic landfall in Jamaica.

The National Hurricane Center pleaded with Jamaicans to “remain sheltered!” as the already-deadly storm churned just offshore. One measure of Melissa’s frightening potential ...Read more

Hurricane Melissa’s rapid intensification and its projected torrential rain are highlighting the problems for emergency responders who will have to deal with crises on several Caribbean islands simultaneously in coming days, according to the Caribbean’s top disaster management expert.

After striking Jamaica, where it’s expected to make ...Read more

Hurricane Melissa, now a Category 5 monster, began its northwest turn Monday evening, churning toward Jamaica with what will likely be the most powerful winds ever recorded on the Caribbean island.

Melissa, which also is expected to dump several feet of rain, has already been blamed for a handful of deaths in Haiti and Jamaica and the toll will...Read more