The death toll is growing as hurricane melissa crosses cuba and heads for the bahamas a day after making landfall in jamaica as one of the region’s strongest storms on record. Melissa tore through the caribbean as one of the most powerful storms in history, slamming jamaica as a category 5 hurricane earlier this week. People across the northern caribbean were digging out from the destruction of hurricane melissa on thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed. Melissa is now centered off the northern coast of jamaica after barreling ashore as one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes in history Track melissa with our collection of maps here.
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