It was all smiles on Tomme Beevas's face as he served customers at Pimento Jamaican Kitchen in Minneapolis on Monday afternoon. But the major hurricane heading toward his family and friends in Jamaica is top of mind.

"We've been in communication on an almost hourly basis. Every hour there's an update, says Beevas. "But right now the update is, yeah, nothing's happening, right? And so later tonight is when everybody will be panicking, to be honest."

He says the magnitude of Hurricane Melissa is not lost on Jamaicans.

"A lot of the roofs are corrugated zinc roof. A lot of the walls and some houses are corrugated zinc wall. And so, with a Category Five like that, [it] could easily flatten those properties," says Beevas.

He says the government has been doing a good job alerting people

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