Hurricane Melissa left a trail of destruction as it moved across Jamaica, seen for the first time from space in new satellite images obtained from Vantor.

FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray is in the heart of a devastated Montego Bay, Jamaica showing residents struggling to cope with their homes and neighborhoods in ruins after Hurricane Melissa.

Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica, was set to reopen to relief flights on Thursday, but not to commercial flights yet, so many tourists and Jamaicans were disappointed to have to turn back.

Melissa moved like a buzzsaw over the western parishes of Jamaica. The storm's devastating eyewall passed directly over Montego Bay, Jamaica's third most populous city and a popular tourist destination.

Hurricane Melissa roared into Montego Bay in Jamaica, leaving behind severe damage captured in a series of videos on social media. The hurricane was a Category 5 storm when it made landfall in Jamaica before weakening slightly and heading toward Cuba on.

Lancelot Radcliffe was in tears near the Sangster International Airport, which remained closed on Thursday, east of Montego Bay, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa. Radcliffe, who has family in South Florida, said he and his sister were crying and hugging each other after walking through flood waters to be reunited after the storm.

CBS News Miami has been in touch with families living through the aftermath, including Marvin Edwards, who rode out the hurricane in Montego Bay.

WINDSOR LOCKS, CT (WFSB) - Avelo flights from Bradley International Airport to Jamaica were canceled on Thursday. An Avelo spokesperson told Channel 3 that Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay was closed to commercial flights as a result of Hurricane Melissa.

Guests of Jamaica's Riu Montego Resort are under fire for their treatment of staff amid Hurricane Melissa, a category five storm that decimated parts of the country.