A couple celebrating their 10th anniversary is stranded in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa destroyed their Montego Bay resort.

SallyAnne Gray, a Jamaican local, has been praying for her family back home as Hurricane Melissa strengthened to a category five.

Watts-Ankeny says staff will move belongings once safe and jokes, “Right now I am in a confined space with 100 of my new sleepover friends. :)”

The storm, which intensified to Category 5 on Monday, Oct. 27, is predicted to last through Tuesday and bring catastrophic flash flooding, violent winds and possibly deadly landslides, NBC News report ed. Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaican land Tuesday afternoon and is expected to make its way to southeastern Cuba next.

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A Louisville couple is stranded in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa — a record-tying Category 5 storm — slammed the island with catastrophic wind and rain.

Hurricane Melissa is close to making landfall on Jamaica as by far the strongest storm to hit the island since records were first kept 174 years ago. Melissa is a Category

A Greensboro woman studying at North Carolina A&T State University is stranded in Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa tore through the island on Tuesday. Gift Obimma said conditions are slowly improving, but life there is still far from normal.

The hurricane weakened to a Category 3 after carving a path of destruction across Jamaica. Limited communications there have left officials with only partial reports as they seek to assess the scale of the damage.

They closed all the restaurants, they closed all the pools, everything’s getting boarded up so the glass doesn’t shatter,” said Leilani Perez, who’s from Hyde Park.

CBS News Miami's Chelsea Jones has been in touch with families living through the aftermath, including Marvin Edwards, who rode out the hurricane in Montego Bay.