Miami Beach residents brace for Hurricane Irma as the deadly storm barrels toward southern Florida. “A very dangerous day is unfolding in the Florida Keys and much of West Florida,” Michael Brennan, a senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center, said in an early morning update Sunday. Tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Irma began hitting the Lower Florida Keys around 2 p.m. with a forecast landfall Sunday morning as a Category 4 storm. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for all of southern Florida and the Florida Keys. Long had a blunt message for those in the Florida Keys: “You put your life in your own hands by not evacuating,” he said on CNN.

Source: Washington Post September 10, 2017 03:12 UTC