Hurricane Irma Aims for Florida

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
As Texas prepares to rebuild with an $8 billion start by the federal government, and California battles over thirty wildfires, Hurricane Irma reached Category 5 with 185 mph winds in the Atlantic Ocean making it the strongest storm ever recorded, and Irma has turned her crosshairs towards the State of Florida.

Florida residents are scrambling to either get out of the area, or stock up as they prepare to ride out the storm.  Potential landfall on South Florida is estimated to be Friday Night, with the hurricane tearing through the State over the weekend.

Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in all of Florida’s 67 counties.

President Donald Trump “offered the full resources of the federal government”.

As of 11 p.m. Monday, hurricane warnings were in effect for Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis, Saba, St. Eustatius, and Sint Maarten, Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Vieques, and Culebra. The storm was about 410 miles east of the islands.

The National Hurricane Center said Puerto Rico could get as many as four feet of rain on the northern coast.

Irma is considered a “Cape Verde hurricane” which frequently become some of the largest and most intense storms. Hurricanes Hugo, Floyd and Ivan were Cape Verdes, forming in the far eastern Atlantic — near the Cape Verde Islands — and tracking across the ocean.

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