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Hurricane Iram prompted evacuation orders for 6.5 million people in Florida

Some Florida residents return home after Hurricane Irma

Florida has allowed some residents to return to areas hammered by Hurricane Irma's high winds and storm surge, while the death toll rose in the second major hurricane to hit the United States this year.

World • 12 Sep 17

Debris is shown strewn along a Florida roadway in the wake of powerful Hurricane Irma

Florida residents return to homes shattered by Irma

Shocked Florida residents are returning to their shattered homes as the weakened Hurricane Irma pushed inland, flooding cities in the northeastern part of the state and leaving millions without power.

World • 11 Sep 17

An abandoned car sits in the storm surge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Three people killed as Hurricane Irma batters Florida

Three people in Florida, including a sheriff's deputy, have been killed in car crashes as Hurricane Irma closed in with high winds and lashing rain, officials said today.

hurricane irma • 10 Sep 17

'We're delighted now we're all together in the hotel'

Irish girl born 'in nick of time' before hurricane hit

An Irish family living in Turks and Caicos welcomed a baby girl just ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Irma.

hurricane irma • 08 Sep 17

Houses and cars damaged after the passage of Irma on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saint Maarten

At least 21 dead as Hurricane Irma heads for Florida

Hurricane Irma threatened Cuba and the Bahamas as it drove towards Florida after lashing the Caribbean with devastatingly high winds and leaving 21 dead.

World • 08 Sep 17

Business owners in Miami board up their premises ahead of Hurricane Irma

Airlines race to get people out before Hurricane hits

Airlines have been racing against the clock to clear as many customers as possible from the likely Florida path of Hurricane Irma, as social and political pressure mounted for carriers to play a bigger role in aiding evacuations.

News • 08 Sep 17

Ships wrecked ashore, in Marigot, near the Bay of Nettle, on the island of Saint Martin

In Pictures - Hurricane Irma

View images of Hurricane Irma, the category 5 storm which is tearing a path through the Caribbean islands, as Florida remains on alert.

World • 07 Sep 17

Wreckage in the vicinity of the Santurce neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, in San Juan, Puerto Rico

At least ten dead as Hurricane Irma batters Caribbean

Torrential rain pounded has pounded Haiti as monster Hurricane Irma roared past the country's northern coast, triggering flooding and injuries, local officials said.

World • 07 Sep 17

Citizens prepare for the imminent passage through the island of Hurricane Irma in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Hurricane Irma lashes Caribbean islands

Haitian authorities and aid agencies are scrambling to prepare for Irma, the strongest Atlantic storm on record, warning it could devastate the country still reeling from drought and last year's Hurricane Matthew.

World • 07 Sep 17

Irma will be the second powerful hurricane to thrash the US in as many weeks

Caribbean braces for Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma strengthened into a highly dangerous Category 5 storm as it barrelled towards the Caribbean and the southern United States.

hurricane irma • 05 Sep 17

Hurricane Irma

Some Florida residents return home after Hurricane Irma

Florida residents return to homes shattered by Irma

Three people killed as Hurricane Irma batters Florida

Irish girl born 'in nick of time' before hurricane hit

At least 21 dead as Hurricane Irma heads for Florida

Airlines race to get people out before Hurricane hits

In Pictures - Hurricane Irma

At least ten dead as Hurricane Irma batters Caribbean

Hurricane Irma lashes Caribbean islands

Caribbean braces for Hurricane Irma

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