{"id":8512,"date":"2017-09-10T19:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T23:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2017-09-10T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T00:05:07","slug":"hurricane-irma-hits-cuba-and-slams-into-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2017\/09\/10\/hurricane-irma-hits-cuba-and-slams-into-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irma hits Cuba and slams into Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People take time to clear debris out of a drainage ditch to keep the area from flooding as Hurricane Irma passes through on September 10, 2017 in Miami, Florida. Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm on Sunday, lashing the state with 130 mph winds as it moves up the coast. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A rough surf surrounds Boynton Beach inlet in Boynton Beach, Florida, as Hurricane Irma moved towards shore. (Jim Rassol\/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aden Alcroix-Camper, 11, walks through debris from a second- story roof scattered over two block area after a possible tornado touched down at the Palm Bay Point subdivision in Palm Bay, Florida, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, as Hurricane Irma made landfall in the state . (Red Huber\/Orlando Sentinel via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Residents inspect the receding water in Tampa Bay ahead of Hurricane Irma on September 10, 2017 in Tampa, Florida. Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm on Sunday, lashing the state with 130 mph.(Brian Blanco\/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mary Della Ratta, 94, sits in a shelter after evacuating her home with the help of police ahead of Hurricane Irma’s arrival in Naples, Florida, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. “I’m afraid of what’s going to happen. I don’t know what I’ll find when I go home,” said Della Ratta whose husband passed away ten years ago. “I have nobody. I’m all alone in this world.” (AP Photo\/David Goldman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A car sits abandoned in the storm surge along North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard as Hurricane Irma hits the southern part of the Florida, September 10, 2017 in Fort Lauderdale. The powerful storm made landfall in the United States in the Florida Keys at 9:10 a.m. after raking across the north coast of Cuba. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Residents inspect the water which extreme receded in Tampa Bay ahead of Hurricane Irma’s arrival on September 10, 2017. Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm on Sunday, lashing the state with 130 mph winds as it moves up the coast.(Brian Blanco\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An American flag is torn as Hurricane Irma passes through Naples, Florida, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. (AP Photo\/David Goldman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sailboats moored near Watson Island near Miami Beach, Florida, ride out the winds and waves as Hurricane Irma passes by, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. (AP Photo\/Wilfredo Lee)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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People move through flooded streets in Havana, Cuba, after the passage of Hurricane Irma, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. The powerful storm ripped roofs off houses, collapsed buildings and flooded hundreds of miles of coastline after cutting a trail of destruction across the Caribbean(AP Photo\/Ramon Espinosa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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People move through flooded streets in Havana after the passage of Hurricane Irma, in Cuba, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. The powerful storm ripped roofs off houses, collapsed buildings and flooded hundreds of miles of coastline after cutting a trail of destruction across the Caribbean. Cuban officials warned residents to watch for even more flooding over the next few days. (AP Photo\/Ramon Espinosa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Residents walk on Havana’s sea wall as the ocean crashes into it, after the passing of Hurricane Irma in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. The powerful storm ripped roofs off houses, collapsed buildings and flooded hundreds of miles of coastline after cutting a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.There were no immediate reports of deaths in Cuba.(AP Photo\/Ramon Espinosa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Residents float down a flooded street in Havana atop a large piece of styrofoam, after the passing of Hurricane Irma in Cuba, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. (AP Photo\/Ramon Espinosa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Cuban wades through a flooded street in Havana, on September
10, 2017, after Hurricane Irma moved on after landfall.(YAMIL LAGE\/AFP\/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":8508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,4,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[46],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/1_SS_Irma-Miami_GettyImages-845353902.jpg?fit=1000%2C704&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8517,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions\/8517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}