{"id":25261,"date":"2017-09-06T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25261"},"modified":"2017-09-06T08:42:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:42:48","slug":"devastating-hurricane-irma-flattens-most-solid-buildings-on-caribbean-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25261","title":{"rendered":"“Devastating” Hurricane Irma Flattens “Most Solid” Buildings On Caribbean Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Devastating” Hurricane Irma Flattens “Most Solid” Buildings On Caribbean Island<\/a><\/h3>\n
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“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.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Chuck Watson, disaster modeler with Enki Research<\/em><\/p>\n

Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic storm on record according to the NHC, raced across northern Caribbean islands on Wednesday with a “catastrophic mix of fierce winds, surf and rain”, ahead of what appears a virtually guaranteed Florida landfall at the weekend. While Irma precise trajectory remained uncertain, the latest NHC forecast sees the cone coming right on top fo the panhandle.<\/p>\n

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.@<\/span>NHC_Atlantic<\/span><\/a> cone w\/ #<\/span>Irma<\/span><\/a> & how its changed over time. Trend back to the\u00a0right and a wide cone still relaying uncertainty on future track<\/p>\n

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The eye of Irma, a Category 5 storm packing winds of 185 miles per hour (295 km per hour), moved away from the island of Barbuda and toward the island of St. Martin, east of Puerto Rico, early on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami reported. It could hit Florida on Saturday. It is expected to bring strong storm surges and up to 20 inches of rain in some places.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hunkered down and it is very windy … the wind is a major threat,\u201d said Garfield Burford, the director of news at ABS TV and Radio on the island of Antigua, south of Barbuda. \u201cSo far, some roofs have been blown off\u201d he added according to Reuters<\/a>.\u00a0 Most people who were on Antigua and Barbuda were without power and about 1,000 people were spending the night in shelters in Antigua, according to Burford. \u201cIt\u2019s very scary … most of the islands are dark so it\u2019s a very, very frightening,\u201d <\/strong>he said.<\/p>\n

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“Devastating” Hurricane Irma Flattens “Most Solid” Buildings On Caribbean Island “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.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Chuck Watson, disaster modeler with Enki Research Hurricane Irma, the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15890,15891,15876,940,15807,3824,683,15889,4318],"class_list":["post-25261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-antiqua","tag-barbuda","tag-category-5","tag-florida","tag-hurricane-irma","tag-puerto-rico","tag-reuters","tag-st-martin","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25264,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions\/25264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}