Hurricane Melissa Devastates Jamaica, Cuba, and Heads to Bahamas

Hurricane Melissa's Impact

• 🌪️ Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a category 5 storm, causing widespread damage and power outages.
• 🌊 The hurricane then caused significant devastation in Cuba, damaging homes, businesses, and schools.
• 🚨 Melissa is battering eastern Cuba as an extremely dangerous category 3 hurricane, bringing life-threatening flooding and storm surge.

Devastation in Cuba

• 🏠 In Cuba, the storm damaged homes, businesses, and schools, with hurricane-strength gusts reported.
• 🌧️ Eastern Cuba is expected to receive over 20 inches of rain, causing river levels to rise and cutting off nearly 140,000 people.
• ⚠️ Officials reported collapsed houses, blocked mountain roads, and roofs blown off, exacerbating existing shortages of goods and resources.

Moving Towards the Bahamas

• ✈️ Melissa is now heading towards the Bahamas, with deteriorating conditions and expectations of heavy rain and flooding.
• 📉 The storm has officially moved out of Cuba, but the full extent of the damage is still unknown.