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I'm Sean Laird.
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Parts of the Caribbean are bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Melissa, a rare category 5, Storm.
Eastern Cuba, the southwest of Haiti, and the Turks and Caicos Islands are in its path,
but it's their fellow island nation, Jamaica, where the impact is expected to be felt most directly.
Forecasters are warning of the potentially devastating impact on Kingston,
the capital, which is on the southern coast of Jamaica.
They've predicted wind speeds never before experienced on the island, exceeding 160 miles an hour.
The government urged citizens to heed warnings and made evacuation orders in some areas mandatory.
Here are some residents of Jamaica.
Me personally, I've never witnessed a hurricane that has damaged Jamaica.
So I'm not sure if I'm scared because I don't know what to expect.
Well, the look of how things is going right now and how I see a sky and the weather coming in,
I think this one is different.
This one going to impact.
was hard.
We used plywoods to bark at the areas and sand bags to ensure that during the storm we don't have any issues of any debris going inside or anybody passed by to probably want to go inside.