Hurricane Melissa intensified to a Category 5 storm on Monday amid forecasts of “life-threatening flash flooding,” landslides, and “destructive winds” expected to impact Jamaica ahead of its landfall on Tuesday. The storm is expected to be the strongest to ever hit the island. "Many of these communities will not survive this flooding,” Desmond McKenzie, Jamaica’s minister of local government, warned during a news conference on Monday. "I want to urge Jamaicans to take this seriously.” The U.S.