As one of the strongest hurricanes in history pounded the island of Jamaica, four Windsor-Essex friends huddled in a hotel room with couches and mattresses barricading the balcony doors.

Before losing contact with the outside world, Stoney Point’s Keiliegh Macrae told the Star that panic and fear were spreading at her Montego Bay hotel.

Windows were boarded up. Damage was escalating. There were fights over food at the buffet.

“We have been issued a lockdown in our rooms and were given bags of food last night to last us today,” Macrae, 26, said Tuesday after the hurricane made landfall.

“It’s beginning to get extremely windy and shingles and debris have been flying around. We’re on the third level of our hotel building about 300 feet away from the beach. We have emergency go bags and ha

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