Tourists are stranded in Jamaica after flights out were canceled by Hurricane Melissa , which made landfall Tuesday, Oct. 28.

The Category 5 storm arrived packing 185-mph winds and a dangerous storm surge as it came ashore near New Hope on the southwest part of the island.

Other parts of the country were bracing for the hit and hoping to miss the worst of it. Connease Warren, an Indiana native who interned at the Free Press in 2008, is vacationing in Ocho Rios on the northern central coast.

"It's actually been pretty calm," Warren said Tuesday morning before landfall. "There's a little rain but it's not even raining torrentially or anything. A little bit of light wind but it's not gusts yet."

Warren arrived Thursday for what was supposed to be a long weekend birthday celebration with

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