-‘Monster’ Hurricane Irma started hammering Puerto Rico with 185mph winds and heavy rain late last night
-The category 5 storm reduced Caribbean islands of Barbuda and St Martin to rubble with deadly destruction
-Roughly 95% of homes and properties were destroyed on both islands with Barbuda now ‘barely habitable’
-At least eight people died on the French part of St Martin, while a two-year-old child was killed in Barbuda
-Some 900,000 people are without power on Puerto Rico and at least 50,000 people are without water
-Irma was following projected path that would see it hit Dominican Republic, Turks and Caocos [sic] and Haiti today
-The hurricane is expected to continue past eastern Cuba before veering north for Florida at the weekend
-Red Cross said it is preparing for ‘a major humanitarian response’ as UN estimated 49million will be affected
-Mandatory evacuations were ordered in the Florida Keys and parts of Miami as the scale of the storm emerged
From Jonathan Falwell’s Twitter feed,
Saint Martin needs your prayers. This was shelter we were in until 5am when roof blew off. We were moved minutes before. pic.twitter.com/T5NSrZD71b
— Jonathan Falwell (@jonathanfalwell) September 6, 2017
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