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A week after Hurricane Melissa slammed into the Caribbean, the full scale of its path of destruction is starting to become clear.
Melissa made landfall in southwestern Jamaica last Tuesday as a powerful category 5 hurricane, the Caribbean nation's strongest-ever storm to directly hit its shores, and the first major hurricane to do so since 1988.
With wind speeds of up to 185mph it went on to tear a path through Cuba, the Bahamas and Bermuda before moving off to the north on Friday. As of Monday, the death toll stands at 67.
Below we look at the numbers that reveal why Melissa was branded one of the worst to make landfall in the last 25 years.
open image in gallery Hurricane Melissa churns northwest through the Caribbean Sea ( Getty Images )
The Storm of the Century
At its peak, Hurricane Melissa was a category 5 storm and
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