{"id":25333,"date":"2017-09-07T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25333"},"modified":"2017-09-07T08:55:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:55:29","slug":"hurricane-irma-barrels-toward-miami-as-residents-scramble-to-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25333","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irma Barrels Toward Miami As Residents Scramble To Evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hurricane Irma Barrels Toward Miami As Residents Scramble To Evacuate<\/a><\/h3>\n
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After laying waste to much of the Leeward Islands<\/a> and leaving most of Puerto Rico without power, Hurricane Irma is continuing its destructive march through the Caribbean which is expected to culminate with landfall in Miami sometime this weekend.<\/p>\n

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As we noted yesterday, Irma’s catastrophic 185+ mph winds left 90% of the dwellings on the island of Barbuda completely leveled, according to Prime Minister Gaston Browne.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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First images out of Barbuda from a Facebook broadcast live by ABS Radio & TV.<\/p>\n

Widespread destruction has occurred on the island.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, Irma’s power isn’t expected to subside all that much as it moves over several Caribbean islands over the next couple of days before ending up in Southern Florida.\u00a0 Here is the latest from the National Hurricane Center<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Maximum sustained winds remain near 180 mph (285 km\/h) with higher gusts.\u00a0<\/strong> Irma is a category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.\u00a0 Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next day or two, but Irma is forecast to remain a powerful category 4 or 5 hurricane during the next couple of days.<\/p>\n

FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS<\/p>\n

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  • INIT\u00a0 07\/0900Z 20.0N\u00a0 68.3W\u00a0 155 KT 180 MPH<\/li>\n
  • 12H\u00a0 07\/1800Z 20.7N\u00a0 70.5W\u00a0 150 KT 175 MPH<\/li>\n
  • 24H\u00a0 08\/0600Z 21.7N\u00a0 73.1W\u00a0 145 KT 165 MPH<\/li>\n
  • 36H\u00a0 08\/1800Z 22.3N\u00a0 75.5W\u00a0 140 KT 160 MPH<\/li>\n
  • 48H\u00a0 09\/0600Z 22.8N\u00a0 77.4W\u00a0 135 KT 155 MPH<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • 72H\u00a0 10\/0600Z 24.5N\u00a0 80.0W\u00a0 130 KT 150 MPH<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • 96H\u00a0 11\/0600Z 28.5N\u00a0 80.5W\u00a0 105 KT 120 MPH<\/li>\n
  • 120H\u00a0 12\/0600Z 33.0N\u00a0 81.0W\u00a0\u00a0 75 KT\u00a0 85 MPH…INLAND<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 50 miles (85 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 185 miles (295 km).<\/p>\n

    STORM SURGE:<\/strong>\u00a0 The combination of a life-threatening storm surge and large breaking waves will raise water levels ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS by the following amounts within the hurricane warning area near and to the north of the center of Irma.\u00a0 Near the coast, the surge will be accompanied by large and destructive waves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    Hurricane Irma Barrels Toward Miami As Residents Scramble To Evacuate After laying waste to much of the Leeward Islands and leaving most of Puerto Rico without power, Hurricane Irma is continuing its destructive march through the Caribbean which is expected to culminate with landfall in Miami sometime this weekend. As we noted yesterday, Irma’s catastrophic […]<\/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":[940,15807,12868,4318],"class_list":["post-25333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-florida","tag-hurricane-irma","tag-miami","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25333","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=25333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25336,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25333\/revisions\/25336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}