Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a Category 5 storm early Monday, unleashing torrential rain and threatening to bring catastrophic flooding to the northern Caribbean.

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Residents of Priory, St Ann were feeling the impacts of Hurricane Melissa even before the category five storm made landfall just before midday on Tuesday. Evadney Mills told Observer Online that her son had lost his roof Monday night and so she was making a stop at the gas station to fuel up to go to the hardware store for zinc to make repairs.

Hurricane Melissa has caused widespread destruction across the Caribbean, leaving at least seven dead and thousands more displaced and in the dark. The International Federation of the Red Cross previously said up to 1.