After Hurricane
Irma struck Florida, she helped people clean up and rebuild their lives, they said.
Hurricane
Irma struck the Florida Keys and south Florida early Sunday morning as a powerful category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds near 130 mph.
The Florida Keys Overseas Highway, including its 42 bridges, were deemed safe for vehicular traffic within five days after Hurricane
Irma struck the Keys on September 10.
Four months after Hurricane
Irma struck the Florida Keys, the destination's tourism officials have released a report on its tourism recovery.
A group of dogs abandoned by their owners when Hurricane
Irma struck Florida, are finding new homes thanks to a news crew who was on the scene and SPCA Florida, Lakeland.
This video was taken on St. John, an island in the US Virgin Islands, on October 7, 2017 - just over one month after Hurricane
Irma struck.
A few hours before Hurricane
Irma struck the Florida peninsula, water began retreating from bays and inlets along a stretch of its southwest coast.
Even as
Irma struck Florida, civil engineer Forrest Masters of the University of Florida in Gainesville, his students and collaborators traveled to the southern part of the state to study the intensity and variation in the hurricane's winds.
The Jones Act, which allows only US - flagged ships between US ports, was lifted after Hurricane Harvey and
Irma struck Texas and Florida, helping the states receive needed supplies.
When Hurricane
Irma struck South Florida last fall, it uprooted countless native mangrove trees that help prevent coastline erosion.
The landlord of a federally subsidized apartment complex where 80 tenants were forced to evacuate just before Hurricane
Irma struck is in legal trouble with the city of Miami.
The NASA Earth Observatory has released an astonishing set of images that show the stark contrast between what islands in the Caribbean looked like before and after Hurricane
Irma struck.
Hall and her fellow researchers spent the two days before
Irma struck finishing essential research and stashing away vulnerable specimens.
«We put a hold on sending volunteers from the Mid-Atlantic states» to Texas in case
Irma strikes the US mainland, Red Cross Regional Executive Officer Barry Porter told CBS affiliate WNCN - TV.
Every gift that was pledged up to $ 10,000 during the Hallmark 1 - Day Challenge was matched dollar for dollar, and helps our Emergency Rescue Teams respond swiftly and efficiently when natural disasters such as Harvey and
Irma strike.
Not exact matches
Irma first
struck the tiny island of Barbuda in the Caribbean, leaving the island «barely habitable,» according to its prime minister.
Jose is expected to graze by (by not directly
strike) some of the very same eastern Caribbean islands devastated by
Irma.
A pair of severe hurricanes — Harvey, which hit Texas and Louisiana in late August, and
Irma, which
struck Florida in early September — are set to jumble economic indicators this fall.
The worst Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever recorded,
Irma left at least eight people dead and a trail of destruction on Wednesday when it
struck the islands of Barbuda, St Martin and St Barts.
The National Diaper Bank Network I run sent approximately 1 million diapers to communities affected by Harvey and
Irma, which
struck the U.S. within days of each other.
Hurricane
Irma, a Category 4 storm,
struck the Florida Keys on Sept. 10, moving northward and impacting most of the state.
Trump also owns a multimillion - dollar mansion on the Caribbean island of St. Martin, which is bracing for a
strike from
Irma this morning.
Some models show that
Irma could hit Mar - a-Lago, but others see it
striking the Carolinas.
The heavy rains and particularly strong winds in the recent spate of hurricanes that
struck the United States in 2017 — Harvey,
Irma and Maria — were probably due in part to climate change.
Hurricane
Irma, which
struck Florida in early September, is more likely to result in a wave of early stage delinquencies and defaults than Hurricane Harvey, which hit the Houston, Texas area in late August, recent research from Black Knight shows.
Hurricane
Irma wreaked havoc on the number of jobless Floridians too as an additional 127,000 jobs were lost after she
struck.
First Hurricane Harvey flooded huge swaths of the South and now
Irma has left hundreds of thousands of Floridians without power more than a week after it
struck the state.
And lastly, our lifesaving commitment requires that when disasters
strike, like the Baton Rouge floods in 2016 or recent Harvey and
Irma hurricanes and flooding, the Petco Foundation responds immediately deploying necessary supplies and funds to help save the animals and support the organizations on the ground in their recovery and rebuilding efforts.
While this story centered on Hurricane Harvey, at the time of this writing Hurricane
Irma was threatening to
strike.
Luckily, Hurricane
Irma, which
struck the Keys on September 10, 2017, did not cause major damage in Key West (Unfortunately, other Keys were not so lucky; for an update see Beth's report, Florida Keys Still Recovering.)
After
striking in St. Martin, Hurricane
Irma made its way to the British Virgin Islands.
A British Airways Boeing 777 has taken off for Turks & Caicos for the first time since the island was
struck by Hurricane
Irma.
Hurricane Maria is set to
strike Caribbean islands still reeling from the impact of Hurricane
Irma.
This past October, shortly after hurricanes
Irma, Maria and Jose had
struck the destination, resort officials had told Travel Agent that the reopening was planned for this summer.
Much of the Caribbean lies in ruins after the terrific beatings administered by the twin demon Category 5 hurricanes of 2017,
Irma and Maria, and a monumental clean - up continues in Texas and Florida from two
strikes by Category 4 hurricanes, Harvey and
Irma.
Recently, two epic hurricanes — Harvey and
Irma —
struck North America with extremely destructive force.
People in areas
struck by Hurricanes Harvey,
Irma or Maria have until Dec. 31 to enroll buy a plan through the federal exchange.
The biggest storms of 2017 included Category 4 Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas and Louisiana in late August; Category 4 Hurricane
Irma, which hit Florida in early September; Category 4 Hurricane Maria, which
struck North Carolina two weeks later; and Category 1 Hurricane Nate, which hit the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida in October.