“I would rather inconvenience our residents” with evacuations than suffer loss of life, Gimenez said. Miami-Dade County will start evacuating special-needs residents on Wednesday, and may announce other evacuations soon, Mayor Carlos Gimenez said. While Irma’s exact path is uncertain, Florida – where storm-wary shoppers were standing in long lines outside some stores Tuesday – is bracing for the storm. The Caribbean islands don't need more problems! #PuertoRicoSePrepara- mujertropical□□□ September 2, 2017 Make a U-turn and die in the ocean, #Irma. ![]() The Caribbean islands don’t need more problems!” Twitter user mujertropical wrote about the storm. “Make a U-turn and die in the ocean, Irma. Public schools and officials at the University of Puerto Rico campuses have canceled classes, and many businesses are closed. Many workers recently retired or left their jobs for better prospects on the US mainland, Ramos Rodríguez said. One of those is the shortage of employees. Last month, the director of Puerto Rico’s power utility, Ricardo Ramos Rodríguez, said several factors have made the island’s electric system “vulnerable and fragile,” WAPA reported. Worry in Puerto Rico as Hurricane Irma nears Residents in Puerto Rico prepare for Hurricane Irma. Preparations to protect life and property in those areas “should be rushed to completion,” the hurricane center said in an 11 p.m. The Dominican Republic issued a hurricane warning Tuesday evening that included coastal cities from Cabo Engaño to the northern border with Haiti. Kitts and Nevis, and Anguilla by early Wednesday, and the British and US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Wednesday afternoon. Irma’s forecast track currently has it near or over Antigua and Barbuda, St. The hurricane center warned the storm is “potentially catastrophic,” especially if the worst conditions hit islands at high tides. ![]() #IRMA #Irma2017 #IrmaHurricane #StBarth /28xS3R90JW- iOuL September 5, 2017 (caméra extérieure je ne suis évidemment pas dehors). ![]() Barts posted a photo of rain coming down and winds beginning to sway the leaves of the palm trees Tuesday evening.ĭébut des hostilités de la vilaine Irma. Those islands are under hurricane warnings, as are Puerto Rico, the US and British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, St. “Anguilla, all the way toward (Antigua and) Barbuda, all the way up even toward the British Virgin Islands (are) in grave danger of an eye wall hit at (at least) 150 mph – that devastates the island, no matter what island it is,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said Tuesday. It’s too early to tell whether the storm will make landfall on the US mainland, but forecasts show it could turn toward Florida over the weekend.įorecasters’ most immediate concerns are for the people of the northeastern Caribbean, the hurricane center’s Michael Brennan said. Kitts and Nevis, and Anguilla – Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. The hurricane center said the extremely dangerous core of Irma would hit the northern Leeward Islands – which include Antigua and Barbuda, St. The center of the storm was moving to the west-northwest at 15 mph. ET advisory, the US National Hurricane Center said the eye of the hurricane was 50 miles from the two islands. Late Tuesday, the massive Category 5 storm was almost upon islands like Antigua and Barbuda with near-record 185 mph sustained winds. As Floridians cleared supermarkets of bottled water and emptied gas pumps, people in the northeastern Caribbean were making last minute-preparations before powerful Hurricane Irma hit their islands.
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