JAMAICA (WABC) -- A family from Long Island, who owns a resort in Jamaica, is racing against time to prepare for Hurricane Melissa , a storm forecasted to have a catastrophic impact on the Caribbean island.

Freeport, Long Island native Winthrop Wellington is running out of time to protect his family-owned beach resort, and its 30 stranded hotel guests and staff along the famous seven-mile beach in Negril, Jamaica.

Wellington is the owner of Travellers Beach Resort.

"I have an eerie feeling that it was going to change Jamaica forever," he said.

Melissa, a historic Category 5 hurricane, will soon make landfall, with Negril in its bullseye.

"We don't know how long the power's going to be out because the power's going to go out," Wellington said. "There's no question about that. I don'

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