Hurricane Irma destroyed 95% of the buildings on Barbuda Island
About 24-hours ago, Hurricane IRMA made landfall
in Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds leaving nearly 900,000
people without power as authorities struggled to get aid to small
Caribbean islands.
Nearly every building on the island of Barbuda was damaged when the
eye of the storm passed and about 60 percent of the island's roughly
1,400 people were left homeless,
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne
told The Associated Press. "Either they were totally demolished or they
would have lost their roof. It is just really a horrendous situation."
He said roads and telecommunications systems were destroyed and
recovery will take months, if not years. He also said a 2-year-old child
was killed as a family tried to escape a damaged home during the storm.
The U.S. National Weather Service said Puerto Rico
had not seen a hurricane of Irma's magnitude since Hurricane San Felipe
in 1928, which killed a total of 2,748 people in Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico
and Florida.
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