{"id":25420,"date":"2017-09-09T08:59:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25420"},"modified":"2017-09-09T08:59:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:59:44","slug":"hurricane-irma-is-being-called-a-lawnmower-from-the-sky-and-fema-warns-it-will-devastate-the-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25420","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irma Is Being Called \u2018A Lawnmower From The Sky\u2019 And FEMA Warns It Will \u2018Devastate\u2019 The Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hurricane Irma Is Being Called \u2018A Lawnmower From The Sky\u2019 And FEMA Warns It Will \u2018Devastate\u2019 The Southeast<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>It looks like Hurricane Irma is going to make landfall in south Florida on Sunday morning.\u00a0 Of course that could still change, but this is what the meteorologists are telling us at this point.\u00a0 But of course the exact spot where Irma makes landfall is not so important because of the absolutely immense size of this storm.\u00a0 Irma is going to cause chaos and devastation over a very large area, and just like Hurricane Harvey the recovery from this storm is literally going to be measured in years.<\/p>\n

Down in the Caribbean, the destruction that Irma has caused has been absolutely unprecedented.\u00a0 The president of the island of Saint Martin \u201cestimated that 95 percent of his country had been obliterated\u201d<\/a>, and one resident of the island described the storm as \u201ca lawnmower from the sky\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

Witnesses described similar scenes on the island\u2019s Dutch half. \u201cIt\u2019s like someone with a lawnmower from the sky has gone over the island,\u201d<\/strong> said Mairlou Rohan<\/a>, a European tourist visiting Sint Maarten, part of the Netherlands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is not the sort of terminology that I would use, but without a doubt the devastation caused by this storm has been off the charts.<\/p>\n

On Barbuda, at least 90 percent of the buildings have been destroyed<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

Gaston Browne, the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, said Barbuda was \u201ctotally demolished<\/a>,\u201d with 90% of its buildings destroyed. Communication with the island was cut off because of the destruction. As Hurricane Jose approaches the island, Barbuda officials are trying to evacuate the entire population of 1,800.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now the storm is heading straight for south Florida, and FEMA is using apocalyptic language<\/a> to describe what might happen\u2026<\/p>\n

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