Hurricane Melissa pummeled Cuba early Wed, leaving path of destruction across Jamaica ~ Daily Mail 10.29.25

Hurricane Melissa pummeled Cuba early Wednesday after leaving a path of destruction across Jamaica, where 25,000 tourists remain stranded and entire towns were under water.

The 'storm of the century' could take days or even weeks to recover in the worst-hit parts of Jamaica, with landslides and fallen trees and power lines making it difficult for rescue crews to access some flood-ravaged regions.

Meanwhile in Cuba, as many as 735,000 residents heeded warnings from the nation's president and emergency response crews as they fled their homes along the coast and mountainous regions in the path of the storm ahead of its arrival on Wednesday

As Cubans hunker down and endure the worst of the onslaught, Jamaicans have started work surveying the devastation left behind.

Extraordinary footage has emerged in the hours since the historic storm first made landfall as a mammoth Category 5 storm in Jamaica about 1pm on Tuesday.

Video from Black River in St. Elizabeth, one of the worst-hit parishes, shows how winds tore the roofs from buildings and leveled others to the ground.

Colorful structures which were left partially standing along Brigade Street in town were submerged in murky floodwaters, hours after Desmond McKenzie, deputy chairman of Jamaica's Disaster Risk Management Council, warned the entirety of St. Elizabeth was 'under water.'

Across the island, as many as 530,000 locals are without electricity as emergency crews begin cleanup efforts.

1000's of tourists warned they'll be 'stranded for weeks' in the Caribbean as monster Hurricane

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