{"id":25430,"date":"2017-09-09T12:35:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T17:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25430"},"modified":"2017-09-09T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T17:35:26","slug":"its-a-killer-florida-orders-a-third-of-the-population-to-evacuate-as-irma-hurtles-toward-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25430","title":{"rendered":"“It’s A Killer” – Florida Orders A Third Of The Population To Evacuate As Irma Hurtles Toward Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It’s A Killer” – Florida Orders A Third Of The Population To Evacuate As Irma Hurtles Toward Tampa<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Florida\u2019s highways and backroads are clogged with motorists after Gov. Rick Scott has ordered an unprecedented 6.2 million residents of central and southern Florida to evacuate. <\/strong>Meanwhile, Miami, along with many towns and cities along the state\u2019s southeastern coast, resembles a ghost town, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n

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To recap: The category 4 storm has already carved a path of destruction through the Caribbean, leaving 90% or Barbuda uninhabitable and nearly a million people without power in Puerto Rico. And now, with the storm\u2019s outer bands already battering the southern part of the state, meteorologists are saying Irma has suddenly shifted westward and is now heading toward Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast \u2013 specifically, the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n

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Forecasters expect Irma\u2019s core to come ashore Sunday and strike the Keys, southwestern Florida and the Tampa Bay region, which hasn\u2019t felt a major hurricane since 1921. The eye is expected to miss heavily-populated Miami, which may have dodged a bubble in the last minute, but that area will still get life-threatening hurricane conditions even without a direct hit, Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen said.<\/p>\n

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LATEST: #<\/span>Irma<\/span><\/a> currently Cat. 3 Hurricane with winds of 125 mph; expected to restrengthen as it heads towards Florida http:\/\/<\/span>abcn.ws\/2xcR82b\u00a0<\/span><\/a> pic.twitter.com\/6MStKhvII4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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MORE: #<\/span>Irma<\/span><\/a> 175 miles SE of Key West, FL, moving west at 9 mph; expected head up western coast of Florida. http:\/\/<\/span>abcn.ws\/2xcR82b\u00a0<\/span><\/a>pic.twitter.com\/b6XtIF92YI<\/a><\/p>\n

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“It’s A Killer” – Florida Orders A Third Of The Population To Evacuate As Irma Hurtles Toward Tampa Florida\u2019s highways and backroads are clogged with motorists after Gov. Rick Scott has ordered an unprecedented 6.2 million residents of central and southern Florida to evacuate. Meanwhile, Miami, along with many towns and cities along the state\u2019s […]<\/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":[2924,3366,940,15807,4318],"class_list":["post-25430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-emergency","tag-evacuation","tag-florida","tag-hurricane-irma","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25430","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=25430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25431,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25430\/revisions\/25431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}