A police car passes a boarded-up hotel on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, where thousands are fleeing ahead of the imminent arrival of Hurricane Irma. The storm was forecast to reach the Florida Keys on Sunday morning local time before moving up the state's Gulf Coast. The governor urged everybody in the Keys, where forecasters expect the storm to hit first, to get out. "Irma is going to take all of Florida." With winds that peaked at 300 km/h, Irma was once the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the open Atlantic.

Source: Bangkok Post September 09, 2017 13:07 UTC