WHITE HOUSE, Jamaica (WAVY) — "The last night [Monday], we had a sunset that was amazing. It was beautiful all the way across the whole horizon was bright orange, and it was great. And, you wouldn't even think anything like this was happening," said Shelly Pope of Chesapeake, describing the day before Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica.

Twenty-four hours later, the Pope, Crawford and Elliott families are counting their blessings after surviving a Category 5 hurricane. Jessica Pope said they had to take in the Crawford family as the storm intensified.

"It was scary," Jessica Pope said. "... We had to get them in our room after their windows were busted out. There's holes in their wall."

Amber Crawford provided frightening details on how she and her husband survived the early hours of the s

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