Prime minister posts harrowing account of hurricane on Facebook

Hurricane Maria is slamming the small Caribbean island of Dominica, and the prime minister is experiencing it firsthand — and posting about it on Facebook. 

The Category 5 storm hit the island on Monday night, when Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit posted these terrifying messages. 

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A little before 10 p.m. ET, things got really bad. 

Shortly after, he followed it up with this more reassuring post. 

Still, the island is getting battered by 160 mph winds. It's the first time in the country's history that it has faced a Category 5 storm. 

Nearly 74,000 people live in Dominica, which at one point was completely swallowed by the eye of Hurricane Maria. 

The storm is expected to affect some of the islands already hurting from Hurricane Irma, and is due to hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday. 

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