Hurricane Melissa is bearing down on Jamaica. Those who are visiting Jamaica are now stuck there until the hurricane passes. FOX6 spoke to a Milwaukee couple who were honeymooning on the island, and also to a woman and her father who is on the island.

Hurricane Melissa brought devastation and death to the Caribbean as it tore through the region as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in more than 150 years.

Residents swept water from homes as they tried to salvage belongings.