Statellite images lay bare the extent of Hurricane Melissa's damage

A cherry red classic car — one of Cuba's informal emblems — crushed under a fallen tree.

A bird's eye view of Jamaica's crystalline oceans made unrecognisable with brown sludge.

Before: Jamaica's White House before Hurricane Melissa. . . After: After Hurricane Melissa. . .

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Jamaica's White House before Hurricane Melissa. / After Hurricane Melissa.

Hurricane Melissa, dubbed the "storm of the century", tore through Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti and left a trail of damage and displacement in its wake.

Here are some of the earliest images of its aftermath.

Jamaica

In the southern parish of Jamaica's St Elizabeth, a church's walls stand barren — the roof and interior ripped clean fr