NEW YORK (PIX11) -- As Hurricane Melissa inches closer to Jamaica, both those on the island and back here at home at worried about the outcome of the world’s strongest storm of the year.

The deadly storm is expected to bring catastrophic flooding, damaging winds of up to 175 miles per hour, and storm surges as high as 13 feet.

As Hurricane Melissa, now a Category 5 storm, is closer to the island, residents are taking every precaution.

“They have issued all the disaster warnings that we need to have,” says Nadine Molloy, Principal at Shortwood Teachers College, a residential higher education facility in Jamaica, which has shut down. She’s been coordinating safety measures. “Evacuation- people getting people from flood-prone areas, people who are living in precarious conditions.”

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