«Barbuda is literally falling apart,» said a shocked Prime Minister of the state of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston brown after a powerful hurricane Irma destroyed 90% of houses on a tiny Caribbean island.
According to him, the house and infrastructure on Barbuda – «completely destroyed». The official told the press after flying over the island. «The island literally went under water. I believe that now Barbuda uninhabitable,» said brown.
The fate of about 1,600 residents of Barbuda until now nothing was known, because within 12 hours the connection with the island was absent due to the fall of telecommunication towers. Some sources claimed that the island killed about a thousand people, but the authorities urged people to wait for the official data and do not raise premature panic.
Hurricane Irma is starting to get deadly.#HurricaineIrma #Category5 #Floods #Winds #2017 #VirginIslands #Miami #Florida pic.twitter.com/fT0uKYFEDr
— WhereistheBuzz (@WhereistheBuzz) September 7, 2017
As reported by brown, the neighboring island of Antigua with a population of 80 thousand people escaped serious damage – the scale of the destruction and death toll there.
#HurricaneIrma Buildings in St Martin topple after Hurricane Irma. Unbelievable! #hurricaneirma2017 #StMartin
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— Trumpism 5.0™ (@Team_Trump45) September 7, 2017
In the southern part of the island of Saint-Martin destroyed the airport, the third largest in the Caribbean. Earlier it was reported that the island was left without electricity. Only in the Caribbean, a hurricane killed 9 people.
It is expected that Irma will be about Puerto Rico, Haiti, Cuba and then along the West coast of Florida. The peak of bad weather on the territory of the USA is forecast for September 10-11. In this regard, canceled thousands of flights. Travellers are advised to take time off from visiting the region.
Will absolutly Barbuda was devastated by Hurricane Irma…. 90% of its structures are destroyed and 60% of the islands population is homeless… pic.twitter.com/IImZE6Wsn6
— Kendall Rae☀ App (@KendallRaeOnYT) September 7, 2017
According to experts, the formation of hurricanes contribute to global warming.
#Barbuda before #IrmaHurricane pic.twitter.com/a0VTcpOdte
— Prophecies علامات? (@nogoinegypt) September 6, 2017
