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A 76-year-old woman from Jamaica is opening up about surviving Hurricane Melissa

Ruth Lyn Deer said she took shelter at her home in Cobie Ridge, watching the roof be ripped off and a sinkhole open up in her bedroom

“We haven’t heard from anyone,” Deer said, noting that her community is "cut off" from the rest of the world

A woman in Jamaica is opening up about surviving Hurricane Melissa .

Melissa made landfall near New Hope on Tuesday, Oct. 28, as a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. Although details about its path of destruction are continuing to emerge, at least 34 people , including 10 children, across the Caribbean have died.

Ruth Lyn Deer, 76, rode out the storm in Cobie Ridge, a settlement about seven miles from Black River, according to

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