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Aerial View of Barbuda - Survivors tell Irma Story
Barbuda "Totally Demolished" After Hurricane Irma Levels 90% Of All Dwellings
6
September, 2017
Having
mauled the Caribbean island of St. Martin overnight, where this
morning the French government
said that the four "most solid" buildings have been
destroyed, Hurricane Irma - now at 185mps for a record 33 straight
hours - has just passed north of Puerto Rico, buffeting the US island
territory’s capital, San Juan, with heavy downpours and strong
winds that scattered tree limbs across roadways, but
not before “totally
demolishing” the island of Barbuda, with 90% of all dwellings
leveled, Prime Minister Gaston Browne said.
Images show Irma damage in Barbuda; officials say destruction could be "upwards of 90%" http://cnn.it/2vMPepD
Browne
said that Irma has unleashed "absolute devastation" on the
island making Barbuda, home to some 1,800 people, "basically
uninhabitable" with preliminary damage estimated at some $150
million.
Antigua & Barbuda's Prime Minister: "The way it stands now, #Barbuda is basically uninhabitable."
Photos: ABS Television/Radio.
He
said that the island's communication network is 100% destroyed.
A
before and after photo confirms the devastation:
First images out of Barbuda from a Facebook broadcast live by ABS Radio & TV.
Widespread destruction has occurred on the island.
"This
rebuilding initiative will take years," Browne told local
television after a visit to the island, where he confirmed at least
one person had died due to the storm. A second storm-related
fatality, that of a surfer, was reported on Barbados and the French
government said at least two people were killed in Caribbean island
territories of St. Martin and Saint Barthelemy.
Irma,
with top sustained winds of 185 miles per hour (300 km per hour), was
on track to reach Florida on Saturday or Sunday, becoming the second
major hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in as many weeks.
While
Irma’s intensity could fluctuate, and its precise course remained
uncertain, the storm was expected to remain at least a Category 4
before arriving in Florida.
Irma
is not alone, and as reported earlier, two other hurricanes formed on
Wednesday. While Katia, in the Gulf of Mexico, poses no threat to the
U.S. Hurricane Jose in the open Atlantic, about 1,000 miles (1,610
km) east of the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles islands, could also
eventually threaten the U.S. mainland, a third hurricane landfall on
the U.S. in under a month.
According to Reuters, Florida emergency management officials, chastened by Harvey’s devastation, began evacuations days in advance of Irma’s arrival, ordering all tourists to leave the Florida Keys, a resort archipelago off the state’s southern tip, starting Wednesday morning. Evacuation of residents from the Keys was to begin Wednesday evening.
Ed Rappaport, acting National Hurricane Center director, interviewed on Miami television station WFOR-TV, called Irma a “once-in-a-generation storm,” adding that for Florida, “It’s the big one for us.”
Chuck Watson, disaster modeler with Enki Research, said in a note that "Irma is the kind of storm where you get thousands of lives lost. This is not going to be the big slow-motion flood like Harvey - this is a real, honest-to-God hurricane."
Late on Wednesday, the eye of Irma passed just north of Puerto Rico.
“The winds that we are experiencing right now are like nothing we have experienced before,” Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello told CNN. “We expect a lot of damage, perhaps not as much as was seen in Barbuda.”
At least half of Puerto Rico’s homes and businesses lost electricity by nightfall, according to a Twitter message posted by an island utility executive. According to the Miami Herald, Puerto Rico residents could be left without power for four to six months after Hurricane Irma grazes the island.
"There are going to be blackouts. Areas that will spend three, four months without electricity," Ricardo Ramos, executive director of Puerto Rico's energy agency, said, according to the Spanish-language news agency EFE.
On its current path the core of Irma, which the Miami-based center said marked the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, was expected to scrape the northern coast of the Dominican Republic on Thursday. It was on a track that would put it near the Turks and Caicos and southeastern Bahamas by Thursday evening.
Trump, whose waterfront Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, could take a direct hit from the storm, has already approved emergency declarations for Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, mobilizing federal disaster relief efforts. He spoke with governors of all three by telephone on Wednesday, the White House said.Florida Governor Rick Scott said Irma could be more devastating than Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm that struck the state in 1992 and still ranks as one of the costliest ever in the United States.
Residents in most coastal communities of densely populated Miami-Dade County were ordered to move to higher ground beginning at 9 a.m. ET (1300 GMT) on Thursday, Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced on Wednesday. The evacuation orders will affect more than 100,000 residents, the Miami Herald reported. Miami-Dade has a population of 2.7 million.
#Hurricane watches could be issued for portions of the Florida Keys and the Florida peninsula on Thursday. http://hurricanes.gov
#Irma
Scott told a news conference in the Keys that 7,000 National Guard troops would report for duty on Friday, ahead of the storm’s expected arrival. Statewide emergency declarations were issued in both North and South Carolina, and Georgia Governor Nathan Deal declared an emergency for six coastal counties in anticipation of Irma’s arrival.
‘Barbuda is literally rubble’: Shocked PM says Irma destroyed 90% of homes on tiny Caribbean island
BREAKING!
200 MPH Hurricane Footage of Irma AFTERMATH (Anguilla St Maarten St
Martin)
RAW
FOOTAGE
Michel
Magras, senator from the Island of St Barts:
"I
am shocked by the monster that covers us... The island is devastated.
It is
apocalyptic, a lot of damage, many roofs destroyed.”
apocalyptic, a lot of damage, many roofs destroyed.”
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PHOTOS: Hurricane Irma’s impact on the Caribbean
Hurricane
Irma lashed Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds Wednesday
night, leaving nearly 900,000 people without power as authorities
struggled to get aid to small Caribbean islands already devastated by
the historic storm.
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