Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba
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Hours after the storm passed Jamaica, causing a massive power outage, authorities urged residents to continue sheltering.
By Sarah Morland KINGSTON (Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa churned toward Cuba's second-largest city with the force of a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday, hours after making landfall in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone on record to hit that Caribbean island nation.
Hurricane Melissa— one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded—is now off Cuba’s eastern coast, after leaving a trail of destruction across the large island and its much smaller neighbor, Jamaica.