Half of Florida residents were left without electricity due to hurricane “Irma”
The wind speed dropped from 209 to 169 kilometers per hour.
Moscow. September 11. INTERFAX.RU — More than 3.3 million Florida residents were left without electricity due to hurricane “Irma”, informs on Sunday Agency Associated Press.
It is expected that the outages will be even more as the storm would move North. Just live in the state of 7 million people.
Closed airports are Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Tampa; some of them promise to partially resume flights on Tuesday, the other schedule for the next days is completely absent.
Because of the powerful wind whose speed according to the latest data dropped from 209 to 169 km per hour, fell three construction crane: one on the beach in Fort Lauderdale and the other two in Miami. About the victims is not known.
Downtown #Miami looks like a watery war zone. This is more than 100 miles from #Irma’s eye pic.twitter.com/tHrPSnwjsV
— Al Bree (@nlitenmebabe) September 11, 2017
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In Sarasota the powerful waves washed up on the shore two manatees. Local residents are unable to bring them back into the water and called the rescue; but later, without waiting for help, wrapped the animal in a tarp and on their own, dragged to a depth sufficient to ensure that they could escape.
Hurricane Irma strands manatees in Sarasota Bay as residents rush to the rescue, pulling them back into the water https://t.co/4b9EZ1OfLv pic.twitter.com/ovuETOzv9Z
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 11, 2017
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On Sunday afternoon the hurricane “Irma” reached the coast of Florida. At first he was assigned to the fourth category, it was later reduced to second. According to forecasts, it will move in a North-westerly direction along the coast of the state.
“Irma” called the most powerful hurricane formed in the Atlantic at least for the last decade. His victims in the Caribbean were 25 people.
#Brickell Ave looks like an ocean. #Miami”s financial district. Unprecedented flooding. #hurricaneIrma #irma pic.twitter.com/TuMD8NVf5H
— Al Bree (@nlitenmebabe) September 11, 2017
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