Irma already weakened to a tropical storm, but continues to cost lives, reaching Georgia and South Carolina.
According to USA Today, at least six people died because of the hurricane in Florida, in Georgia, three, and one in South Carolina. In the Caribbean Irma killed 35 people.
62-year-old resident of southwest Georgia, died under the wreckage of his barn. Near Atlanta, the 50-year-old man was killed when a tree fell on his house, said police Sergeant Sam Worsham.
The third accident due to Irma’s happened in Forsyth County. There the woman was killed under a tree that fell on her car right on the driveway to the house.
There are dead and in South Carolina. 57-year-old Charles Saxon was killed by a tree branch when he cleaned your yard of debris and garbage in Calhoun Falls.
Only in Georgia more than 100 thousand people were left without electricity. Although Irma continues to weaken further, residents are asked to remain vigilant.
Roy Cooper, the Governor of North Carolina, where it is headed Irma, said that the forecast looks good, but it does not mean that the danger has passed.
«People still need to carefully monitor forecasts and be ready,» said Cooper.
