Some six million people are under a hurricane watch including some of the most populated areas in Florida like Miami, Broward County, which is home to Ft. Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, npr.org reports and adds:
As people in south Florida board up their homes and head north to escape Irma’s rage, several Caribbean islands are dealing with its aftermath.
In the Dominican Republic, torrential rains flooded parts of the island, damaging homes and leaving roads completely blocked by falling trees.
In Barbuda, the Prime Minister notes the country is barely habitable after nearly every single home was damaged by the storm.
More than half of its residents are now homeless and government officials say it could take millions of dollars and years to rebuild.
In the meanwhile, as Hurricane Irma continues to approach Florida, air travel is expected to be affected in the United States following the first official hurricane warnings issued for the city by the National Hurricane Center late Thursday.
As a result, mandatory evacuation orders have already been issued for Florida Keys and swaths of southern and coastal Florida, since Irma is the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade, classified as a Category 5 storm with winds reaching 185mph.
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