The extraordinarily large and intense Hurricane Irma is drawing ever closer to South Florida. A hurricane catastrophe has become nearly unavoidable; it’s only a matter of what areas are hardest hit and how severely. The storm is comparable in strength to Hurricane Andrew, which devastated parts of South Florida in 1992, but much larger in size. Based on the latest computer model projections, it’s almost impossible the storm will miss, but it’s still uncertain whether the southwest or southeast coast will catch the storm’s most destructive brunt, or somewhere in between. Irrespective of the storm’s exact track, hurricane-force winds could blast most if not all of the Florida peninsula. read more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...da-posing-dire-threat/?utm_term=.509b8f7f2018
