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Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, caused widespread destruction and at least 22 deaths in Jamaica.

Florida residents and organizations are mobilizing to send financial aid and relief supplies to the island nation.

The storm destroyed homes and infrastructure in cities like Montego Bay and Kingston before moving toward Cuba.

For the last several days Andrea Morrison, like others across south Brevard with connections to Jamaica, has watched as heartbreaking images from Hurricane Melissa’s catastrophic passage over the island nation surfaced.

Some of those images include once-bustling streets in Montego Bay, where Morrison’s family had a vacation home. The popular tourist site now sits ravaged and strewn with mangled, muddied debris from Melissa’s hellish winds.

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