People walk past debris as Hurricane Irma moves off from the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, in Nagua, Dominican Republic, on Thursday. More than a half-million people in Miami-Dade County were ordered to leave as Irma closed in with winds of 281kph. Hurricane Jose could hit islands already ravaged by Irma. View of the aftermath of Hurricane Irma on Sint Maarten, the Dutch part of Saint Martin island in the Caribbean, on Wednesday. “It is wider than our entire state and could cause major and life-threatening impacts from coast to coast.

Source: Bangkok Post September 08, 2017 03:56 UTC