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Florida allowed some residents to return on Tuesday to areas hammered by Hurricane Irma's high winds and storm surge, while the death toll rose in the second major hurricane to hit the United States this year. Irma, which had rampaged through the Caribbean as one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, was downgraded to a tropical depression on Monday.
As the remnants of Hurricane Irma trail off into Georgia, millions of Floridians are left with a scene all too familiar to many of us - massive power outages, downed trees and signs, and flooded homes.
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In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is warning consumers to be on the lookout for scams. "Seeing or hearing about the devastation caused by a natural disaster evokes our sympathies and our desire to help those affected," Carr's office wrote in a news release Monday night.
Chris Sweat stood in the middle of Beach Drive early Monday afternoon on high ground, looking down at the Atlantic Ocean surging over the section of College Drive he calls home. But Sweat had already managed to move his prized Jeep Wrangler, with its Dukes of Hazzard paint job, to higher ground.
The newly crowned Miss America isn't worried that she may start her reign in a Twitter war with President Donald Trump, who she says shouldn't have pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord. While the U.S. contends with the destruction caused by two ferocious hurricanes in three weeks, Americans also are marking the 16th anniversary of one of the nation's most scarring days.
The newly crowned Miss America isn't worried that she may start her reign in a Twitter war with President Donald Trump, who she says shouldn't have pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord. While the U.S. contends with the destruction caused by two ferocious hurricanes in three weeks, Americans also are marking the 16th anniversary of one of the nation's most scarring days.
Hurricane Irma roared through the Florida Keys yesterday with punishing 130mph winds and began pushing its way north, knocking out power to more than 1.69 million people across the state and leaving at least three people dead in the state, including a sheriff's deputy. The nearly 400-mile-wide storm was expected to make a slow, ruinous march up Florida's west coast, straight toward the heavily populated Tampa-St Petersburg area by this morning.
A 2 p.m. ET advisory on Sunday from the National Hurricane Center downgraded the storm to a Category 3, which it said was about 35 miles east of Naples, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph. The storm was moving at 12 mph.
Hurricane Irma roared through the Florida Keys on Sunday with punishing 130mph winds and began pushing its way north, knocking out power to more than 1.5 million people across the state and collapsing a construction crane over the Miami skyline. The nearly 400-mile-wide storm is expected to make a slow, ruinous march up Florida's west coast, straight toward the heavily populated Tampa-St Petersburg area by Monday morning.
You can find photos, videos and other articles about one of the strongest hurricanes ever seen in the Atlantic in our Hurricane Irma page . Hurricane Irma hit the Florida Keys this morning.
Hurricane Irma arrived in the Florida Keys early Sunday morning as a Category 4 storm. This is the first time in U.S. history that two Category 4 storms have hit the mainland in the same year.
Hurricane Irma made landfall at 9:10 a.m. ET at Cudjoe Key, Florida, as a Category 4 storm packing maximum sustained winds of 130 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. The eye of Hurricane Irma slammed into the Florida Keys as the calamitous storm snapped palm trees and threatened to devastate much of the state.
President Donald Trump gestures towards reporters as he walks with first lady Melania Trump to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House Friday in Washington.
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Levi Denham, a WC-130J Hercules aircraft weather reconnaissance loadmaster assigned to the 53rd Reconnaissance Squadron, performs pre-engine start-up inspections in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, on Sept.
President Donald Trump ignored seething Republicans and made good on his deal with Democrats, signing legislation that links $15.3 billion in disaster aid to an increase in the U.S. borrowing limit. The law is a first installment in replenishing depleted federal emergency coffers.
A recharged Category 4 Hurricane Irma, possibly the worst storm to hit the Lower Keys in more than a half century, is expected to make landfall in the coming hours after daybreak. At the National Weather Service in Key West, winds early Sunday had already begun to pick up, with some hurricane gusts and sustained winds between 45 and 60 mph, night shift meteorologist Adam Futterman said.
After several days of prep, federal emergency officials on this Sunday must now wait to see just how much damage Hurricane Irma does to Florida, as for the second time in the last few weeks, a strong tropical system could set the stage for billions of dollars in federal disaster relief needs. "My administration is monitoring Hurricane Irma around the clock," the President said in a Saturday tweet.