Douglas County Sentinel

Nearly 50 dead after Hurricane Melissa thrashes Caribbean

Hurricane Melissa was "moving quickly away" from Bermuda early Friday after the death toll rose to nearly 50 people, officials said.
USA Today

'No internet, no phone lines'; Cuban native in PSL concerned after Hurricane Melissa

Giovanni Montesano, 60, is a real estate broker and decades-long Port St. Lucie resident who was born and raised in Havana, several hundred miles west of the Santiago de Cuba area where Melissa came ashore as a category 3 hurricane. Montesano said a ...

Rubio says White House is ready to help fund Cuba’s hurricane recovery

The White House is ready to send humanitarian aid to Cuba as it recovers from Hurricane Melissa, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on social media Thursday, a commitment that comes despite the administration’s hardened stance against Havana and its wholesale cuts to foreign aid.

Hurricane Melissa kills 25 in Haiti, nearly 30 total as storm batters Caribbean

Hurricane Melissa barreled through the Caribbean on Wednesday after thrashing Cuba’s second-biggest city, isolating hundreds of rural communities, unleashing devastation in Jamaica and drenching Haiti,

Hurricane Melissa Snarls Travel Across the Caribbean

Airlines canceled flights and cruise lines rerouted ships to avoid the storm, which could affect destinations like the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos next.

Hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica as possibly the island’s strongest recorded storm

Hurricane Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength as it neared Jamaica with up to 30 inches of rain and a life-threatening storm surge.
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