Florida residents got a first look of the destruction Irma caused as it swept over the state, leaving virtually no area of the peninsula untouched. ———GRATEFUL BUT WORRIEDGwen Bush watched from her window early Monday morning as the water rose around her central Florida home. ———'I'M GOING TO GET THERE'Joseph McCord in Jacksonville would have probably not taken the hurricane barreling toward Florida too seriously. When Thompson took the dogs out for a walk in nearby Centennial Olympic Park on Sunday night, he met numerous other evacuated Florida residents. ———Associated Press writers Jay Reeves in Bonita Springs and Estero, Florida; Claire Galofaro in Windermere, Florida; Jason Dearen in Sweetwater, Florida; Adriana Gomez Licon in Miami; Doug Ferguson in Jacksonville, Florida; and Kate Brumback in Atlanta contributed to this report.

Source: ABC News September 11, 2017 18:00 UTC