Hurricane Melis­sa has rewrit­ten the meteo­rological record books and shaken the Carib­bean’s sense of secu­rity. With sustained winds of 185 miles per hour, Melissa did not simply graze the re­gion; it tore through Jamaica with a fury never before measured in the island’s history. When the World Me­teorological Organiza­tion confirmed that Me­lissa ranked among the…