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Total silence from Barbuda: the hurricane irma could have wiped out the island completely.
THE NEW JOURNAL, The Eye of the Hurricane irma, which reached Category 5 intensity on Tuesday afternoon,
It has crossed the island of Barbuda on Wednesday with "potentially catastrophic" effects.
Lesser Antilles
Several testimonies published on social networks suggest that all telecommunications technology
in the Island of Barbuda has been devastated after the passage of irma.
Hurricane irma destroys Caribbean islands
"A local station in Antigua [island near Barbuda] says the island has suffered minor damage due to the wind, but not a word yet from Barbuda. The hurricane passed just above, "
a user points out about this worrying silence.,
The hurricane irma, the largest ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, with maximum category (5), a length of about 200 kilometers and sustained winds of 297 kilometers an hour, arrived this morning to the eastern Caribbean islands with the entire region, from Puerto Rico to Florida, on red alert.
irma is hitting with "extreme violence" the islands of San Bartolomé and San Martín,
according to the French meteorological agency, with floods and strong winds.
The cyclonic eye is passing by just at that time and there is still no data of material damage
or of possible human damages. road to Puerto Rico
The projections of the National Center of Hurricanes of the USA indicate that irma will happen this Wednesday
in the north of Puerto Rico-without hitting this island fully but affecting it laterally.
On Thursday it could affect the Dominican Republic and Haiti and on Friday, Cuba. Everything points to that between
Friday afternoon and Saturday the deranged hurricane will arrive in Florida. but we still do not know why
part of the peninsula would enter and with what power. The length of the hurricane is 193 kilometers and the radius
of impact of its gusts of air from the core of the tomenta, 75 kilometers.,
irma looms over the Caribbean days after the passage of Hurricane Harvey through Texas,
that left at least 60 dead and material damages around 200,000 million dollars
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with floods of a caliber never seen in the area. The president of the United States, Donald Trump,
He wrote this morning on Twitter that his team closely monitored the situation and concluded: "
It seems to be the biggest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic! "
Caribbean Islands
The predictions indicate that the hurricane will travel the Caribbean in a northwesterly direction and that on Friday
It will pass between the Bahamas and Cuba. The course taken from there is still an unknown. Predictive models
show a greater trend that irma continues to go up the ocean in a northwest direction towards the south of Florida,
sweeping the tourist cays-where the authorities have ordered the tourists who are beginning to evacuate
the area on Wednesday at dawn-and the metropolitan area of Miami. But we will have to wait for it to pass
on Wednesday to have more certainty,
The mayor of Miami-Dade, Carlos Giménez, has also declared a state of emergency. This Wednesday, the evacuation of the most vulnerable coastal areas of the city, such as Miami Beach, could begin. "It's a very powerful storm," said the mayor. "I prefer to inconvenience neighbors that lose lives." The director of emergencies in the county of Monroe (where the keys are located, the tourist center of the region) has asserted: "If there has ever been a storm to be taken very seriously, this is it". In Miami the alert is felt in the huge number of buyers who go to supermarkets to stock up on groceries and on the long queues at gas stations. Many service stations that have run out of fuel. The schools, with extreme caution, will be closed from Thursday (included). On the roads of Florida has stopped charging tolls since five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, local time.
In Puerto Rico, Governor Ricardo Rosselló has announced the establishment of shelters for 62,000 people, as well as the suspension of classes. The director of the Caribbean Division of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Alejandro de la Campa, has said that a US aircraft carrier was mobilized to help in cases of emergency. The aircraft carrier has 30 helicopters, amphibious equipment and a hospital. Puerto Rico's electric service warns that irma could severely damage the island's electricity grid for up to six months. The hurricane comes at a critical time for the island, immersed in bankruptcy and with a debt of 120,000 million
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