Hurricane Irma, the most sustained Atlantic cyclone on record, pounded Miami, Florida, with 130mph winds and 15in of rain. Three people died before its eye hit land EPAJust as we thought Hurricane Irma could not sound or feel any worse as it hammered and howled around us, an ominous message pinged into my phone from a friend keeping an eye on the weather radar. She wasn’t wrong. Not even in the worst of Irma but still caught in its relentless churning, like a towel in a washing machine, it was difficult to know to which side of our house we should retreat. Should we move our children to the front bedrooms, where we could hear heavy boughs cracking off the 70ft tree outside?

Source: The Times September 10, 2017 23:04 UTC