With Hurricane Irma, now an “extremely dangerous” category 5 storm bearing down on southeastern Florida, the Miami Herald reports that Miami Mayor Carlos Gimenez has told reporters that an evacuation order was "probably coming late Wednesday or early Thursday." According to the latest forecasts, the storm is expected to make landfall in the US this weekend, unless the jet stream pulls it in a more northerly direction.
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
On Monday, Hurricane Irma strengthened into a category 4 hurricane, and today became an "extremely dangerous" category 5 hurricane, with some meteorologists are projecting that it will remain so until it eventually makes landfall in the United States. And since a “category 6” has not been created yet, category 5 is as high as the scale goes at the moment.
As residents from Anguilla to Florida batten down the hatches for what promises to be a major storm, hurricane hunters from the Weather Reconnaissance Squadron of the Air Force Reserve, based out of Biloxi, MS, flew right into the eye of Irma and it was all recorded on an epic video. Per WKRG:
With Florida already bracing for a hit from Hurricane Irma, which according to some models may attain "monster" Category 5 winds as it nears land prompting locals to store up on everything from water to food to gas and various other housing supplies, late on Monday afternoon Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency ahead of potential landfall, just hours after the governor of Puerto Rico did the same.
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