Updated at 9:49 AM E.T. on Wednesday, October 29

The full scope of the disaster in Jamaica is not yet clear, and the impacts from the storm are not finished. Even though Hurricane Melissa is now heading toward the Central and Southeastern Bahamas, the two feet or more of rain that fell across the Jamaican mountains still has to run downhill, meaning the flood threat continues.

Early indications are that there was damage across the country, but the scale of the destruction in each location remains to be learned.

The National Hurricane Center pegged Melissa's wind speed at 185 mph when the storm came ashore in southwestern Jamaica. The town of New Hope was the official landfall point. The strongest winds around Melissa’s eye generated the maximum storm surge around Black River and the nea

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