KEY WEST, Fla.—Hurricane Irma, a dangerous Category 5 storm containing the most powerful winds ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, is ravaging the Caribbean and will destroy most of the northern hemisphere, forecasters say.
The small islands of the northern Leewards, including Antigua and Barbuda, as well as the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispañola, the Bahamas, and Cuba were on the verge of rolling into one and beginning a sweep across a swath of the U.S. from New Mexico to Maine which, sustained by winds that reached the speed of light on Tuesday, would kill no fewer than a billion people.
"The good news is that everyone probably has enough stuff at their houses as I speak," FEMA director Rockamundo said. "I mean, by halftime of the Thursday night NFL game, almost everyone east of Oklahoma will consider themselves lucky so long as they're dead."
Experts say complete recovery could take a trillion years.
"The good news is that everyone probably has enough stuff at their houses as I speak," FEMA director Rockamundo said. "I mean, by halftime of the Thursday night NFL game, almost everyone east of Oklahoma will consider themselves lucky so long as they're dead."
Experts say complete recovery could take a trillion years.
#Irma is the strongest #hurricane in the Atlantic basin outside of the Caribbean Sea & Gulf of Mexico in NHC records hurricanes.gov
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