Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica as one of the most powerful cyclones ever recorded — with the United Nations declaring the disaster “the storm of the century.” Melissa smashed into Jamaica’s southwestern coast just after 1 p.m. ET Tuesday as a Category 5 storm, with sustained winds blowing a devastating 185 mph. It’s only the second Atlantic hurricane to ever make landfall with wind speeds that high — the other was 1935’s Labor Day Hurricane, which killed hundreds when it smashed into Florida.
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