PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Two weeks ago, Jamaica was slammed by Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, leaving behind widespread destruction and devastation.

One of our own, a WJHG engineer, had planned his wedding for that same week, never imagining what was to come.

“I’ve never seen that type of destruction like that,” said Jay Thomas, WJHG engineer.

A destruction that Jay Thomas wasn’t expecting to live through as a newlywed.

After two years of planning their wedding in Jamaica, his wife’s home country, the couple was heartbroken to find out that Hurricane Melissa would hit around the same time as their special day.

“Wasn’t concerned at first until after we got there and we started seeing that it upgraded from a 3 or 4 to a 5, and I was like, this is going to be bad,” said Thomas.

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