A drone view shows streets covered with mud, after Hurricane Melissa passed the Catherine Hall community in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on October 29. Sandra Stojanovic/Reuters

Hurricane Melissa left a trail of destruction as it moved across Jamaica, seen for the first time from space in new satellite images obtained from Vantor.

The storm made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a monstrous Category 5 hurricane before moving onto to Cuba on Wednesday and later, the Bahamas.

These aerial images show widespread flooding and extensive damage in towns along Jamaica’s southwest coast in the parish of St. Elizabeth and, on the opposite side of the island in Montego Bay, the capital of St. James parish. The storm first made landfall on Jamaica’s southwest coast near the town of Black River, seen in

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