Kelesha Williams, a reporter for Television Jamaica, saw countless unbelievable scenes of destruction late last month as she rode out the worst of Hurricane Melissa’s wrath in St. Elizabeth Parish , a coastal county that was ground zero for the storm’s landfall.

There were the leaking walls of her Treasure Beach hotel room as the Category 5 storm inched over the tourist town on Oct. 28, packing 185 mph winds that tore whole sheets of zinc from nearby homes and a deluge of rain so intense that water seeped through Williams’ walls.

Once she was able to venture out, she saw the waist-deep holes left in roads that had just recently been repaved and the decimated farms that, until recently, fed much of the country.

“Leaving the hotel and seeing all of that, I was like, ‘Wow,’” Williams sai

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