With Hurricane Melissa moving at speeds of 175 miles per hour and preparing to make landfall on the island nation of Jamaica by the afternoon of Oct. 28, governments are warning their citizens to put off travel, while airlines and cruise lines are calling off trips.

"It is more than kind of distressing because you don't know when and you don't know how," said Ewan Simpson, who lives in Jamaica.

Ernie Campbell, 51, of Brockton said his family members in Jamaica weren't overly worried about Hurricane Melissa. “They’re kind of used to it," he said.

The eyewall of Hurricane Melissa has reached the coast of Jamaica, with landfall expected in the next few hours around Crawford, on the southwest part of the island. Melissa is packing dangerous 185 mph winds and is moving north-northeast at 9 mph.

Melissa developed into a deadly Category 5 hurricane Monday, Oct. 27, and is expected to have historically catastrophic impacts on the northern Caribbean.