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					"headline": "Aerial views show Irma&amp;#8217;s wreckage in Key Largo",
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					"headline": "Irma inundates Jacksonville",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T20:48:06.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/irma-inundates-jacksonville/",
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						"name": "Lori Rozsa"
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						"@value":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Before Hurricane Irma left Florida, it caused historic flooding in the Jacksonville area, packing a surprise last-minute wallop to North Florida that sent people scrambling for the top floors of their houses Monday morning.The St. Johns River, which cuts through this northeastern Florida city, overflowed its banks, flooding bridges and city streets.In nearby Clay County, the Black Creek had already surpassed its historic high of 26.5 feet on Monday afternoon, and it was expected to crest at 28.5 feet early Tuesday.“We did not expect how extensive this would be,” said Kimberly Morgan, public information officer for the Clay County emergency operation center.&lt;script async src=&#034;//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&#034; charset=&#034;utf-8&#034;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;Morgan said a storm that dumped six inches of rain on the area the day before Irma hit made matters worse.“I hate to use the term, but this was the perfect storm. It was the tidal surge, combined with all the rain from the nor’easter, which was six inches, and then Irma dumped another 10 to 15 inches. We’ve had places flooded that have never flooded before. Water is up to the mailbox level in some neighborhoods. We’re doing rooftop rescues.”Morgan said water rescues are being done by boat, JetSki, even surfboards.“You have to get creative in a situation like this,” she said.Morgan said that evacuation shelters, which held 700 people before Monday, were expected to fill up even more.“We don’t think we’re going to see the end of this until Friday,” Morgan said.",
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					"headline": "&amp;#8216;People helped each other&amp;#8217;",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T20:38:32.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/people-helped-each-other/",
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						"@value":"ESTERO, Fla. — Many of the 4,000 or so people who spent the past two nights in the massive and crowded Germain Arena in this southwestern Florida town left at dawn Monday, only to find their cars flooded and the streets overfilled with water.One young woman in a subcompact car got as far as one block from the main and passable Corkscrew Road, only to have her engine stop amid two feet of standing water. An older man in a Vietnam Veterans ball cap got out of his Oldsmobile to help push her out of an intersection — but then found himself stuck, afraid to come off a wet median strip and into the lake.“We’re all in the same boat here,” he said, identifying himself only as John from Fort Myers. “The shelter was as good as can be expected, chaotic at times. But people helped each other.”Lee County authorities said its 14 shelters housed more than 32,000 people during Hurricane Irma. It closed 10 of its 14 shelters Monday. People who still needed places to stay will be brought to the four remaining sites, including Germain Arena. A decision has not been made about how long those sites will accept people seeking shelter.",
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					"headline": "Irma wreaks havoc on Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T20:27:48.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/irma-wreaks-havoc-on-coconut-grove-neighborhood-of-miami/",
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						"@value":"MIAMI — Coconut Grove, one of Miami’s oldest neighborhoods, appeared to be one of the most ravaged in the wake of Irma. Storm surges from Biscayne Bay had flooded parts of main thoroughfares of the coastal neighborhoods. The water had seeped into the lobbies of luxury condo buildings along Biscayne Boulevard.Sailboats on Grove Key Marina were flipped. Once-idyllic parks looked like desolate war zones. Debris was everywhere. Large trees toppled over by their roots.By Monday afternoon, the water had mostly receded, but power had yet to be restored.",
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					"headline": "Irma&amp;#8217;s enormous reach",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T20:23:03.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/irmas-enormous-reach/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Sandhya Somashekhar"
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						"@value":"As Irma dissipated over North America on Monday afternoon, its enormity was still evident. Tendrils of the storm covered parts of Canada and Florida at the same time.&lt;img class=&#034;alignnone size-large wp-image-2102&#034; src=&#034;https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-washpost-wordpress-uploads/primetime/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/11161929/IrmasReachMonday-1024x512.jpg&#034; alt=&#034;&#034; width=&#034;525&#034; height=&#034;263&#034; srcset=&#034;https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-washpost-wordpress-uploads/primetime/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/11161929/IrmasReachMonday-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-washpost-wordpress-uploads/primetime/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/11161929/IrmasReachMonday-300x150.jpg 300w, https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-washpost-wordpress-uploads/primetime/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/11161929/IrmasReachMonday-768x384.jpg 768w, https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-washpost-wordpress-uploads/primetime/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/11161929/IrmasReachMonday.jpg 1264w&#034; sizes=&#034;(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px&#034;&gt;",
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					"headline": "Waking up in the dark, without power",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T20:14:51.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/waking-up-in-the-dark-without-power/",
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						"@value":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Marilyn Miller dozed off about 9 p.m. when the storm was still roiling. When she awoke at 1:30 a.m. Monday, the lights were out, her house was pitch black, and the entire Lake Shores neighborhood in St. Petersburg was without power.“It was expected,” she said, because of Irma. What she didn’t expect is that it could be off for days. Neighbors shared stories in her close-knit community. One said he called Duke Energy and was told that only 80 home in the area lost electricity, out of more than 100,000 across Pinellas County. “So it wasn’t a priority,” she said.In her head she calculated the loss and a string of inconveniences while walking her dog past nicely cut lawns. “I can’t see anything. No cellphone. I need my cellphone. It wakes me up in the morning for work. I need my air conditioner at nighttime. I get very hot. Can’t cook. Can’t see. Can’t do anything.”Miller grew up in Brandon, an hour’s drive north. As a native Floridian, she has experienced plenty of hurricanes, but when the lights went out before, they were on within a day. It’s why she never considered getting backup such as a generator.“Of course we’re not anticipating that this will happen again,” she said.",
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					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "&amp;#8216;You don&amp;#8217;t beg, you work&amp;#8217;",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T20:09:34.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/you-dont-beg-you-work/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Roy Furchgott"
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						"@value":"SARASOTA, Fla. — In the north, at every snowstorm, young men — it’s almost uniformly young men — seize the opportunity to make a few bucks offering to shovel sidewalks and driveways.In Florida, post-Irma, young men are already out with rakes and brooms, offering to clear storm debris.Andrew James Thomas is not unusual in that regard. Pedaling his bicycle through the Gillespie Park neighborhood, which is marked by historic 1920s bungalows and fairly recent gentrification, he asked people who were out in their yards if they needed help.He offered to clear a yard for $40.“It’s the way my daddy brought me up,” he said. “If you are down and out, you don’t beg, you work. And I am down and out.”Thomas said he was released from prison, the result of a bar fight, in January and has been living in a sober house, Abba’s Haven, in Sarasota since then.“I just picked up my blue chip,” which represents six months of sobriety, he said. “I’m proud of that.” He said he has actually been sober since March 27, 2013, but has only recently begun to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.He is working to save $500 so he can move away from Florida, he said.“If I stay here, I’ll just end up having babies and that will be it. What I really, really, really want is to move to Montana.”He chose Montana because he became pen pals with a friend’s sister who lives there. If that doesn’t take, he may go see the West Coast: “I’m in a traveling mood.”He seized the chance to do impromptu landscaping because “it’s really hard to get work, people judging me for something that happened four years ago,” Thomas said. So he is going yard to yard, raking his way slowly closer to Montana, seemingly oblivious to the heat and humidity.“I grew up in Florida,” he said. “It doesn’t bother me.”",
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					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "Orlando Islamic Center sheltering over 100 people from Irma",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T19:25:09.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/orlando-islamic-center-sheltering-over-100-people-from-irma/",
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					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "Ginnie the guinea pig goes home",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T19:15:24.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/ginnie-the-guinea-pig-goes-home/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Janine Zeitlin"
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						"@value":"NEW ORLEANS — Ginnie the guinea pig got one last apple in from the breakfast buffet at a Best Western in New Orleans before setting off Monday morning on the 800-mile trek back to LaBelle, Fla.Ginnie was one passenger in the back seat of a Ford F-150 that also included Marley, a golden Labrador, and Mia Drapal, 3. In the front seat was Mia’s father and mother, Travis and Jessica Drapal. Jessica Drapal, 27, is six months pregnant.The family evacuated Thursday night from their home in LaBelle, a small inland town in southern Florida, for northern Florida only to evacuate a few hours later to New Orleans. They came in a caravan that included Travis Drapal’s sister, her two kids and his father and stepmother.&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#034;https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/07/hurricane-harvey-recovery-continues-and-irmas-just-starting-displaced-pets-need-our-help/?utm_term=.2efdd2cf3717&#034;&gt;[Displaced pets from Hurricane Harvey — and now Irma — need our help]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Drapal, a 31-year-old diesel mechanic, planned to leave the guinea pig behind until he and his wife showed his daughter photos of a hurricane. “We can’t leave Ginnie,” she told her parents.He has heard that LaBelle has been hit hard but that his home is okay.Thankfully, Ginnie is a good traveler.“She’s been the best one of everybody here,” Drapal said.",
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				{
					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "Fort Lauderdale picks up after Irma",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T19:04:26.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/fort-lauderdale-picks-up-after-irma/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Len Shapiro"
					},
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						"@value":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The grinding cacophony of chain saw on wood was the dominant sound all around the Fort Lauderdale area less than 24 hours after Hurricane Irma hit late Sunday afternoon, before heading to Florida’s west coast to inflict far more damage on the other side of the state.This area was hit by dangerous 70-mph winds, gusting up to 90, but Irma was far less furious here than predicted a few days earlier. In its Fort Lauderdale-area wake, hundreds of thousands were left without power, without air conditioning, without WiFi and without the means to recharge their cellphones and computers.&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#034;https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/11/why-hurricane-irma-wasnt-far-worse-and-how-close-it-came-to-catastrophe/?utm_term=.d0da1a254ee3&#034;&gt;[Why Hurricane Irma wasn’t far worse, and how close it came to catastrophe]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Still, as of Monday morning, no hurricane-related deaths were reported, and most residents were breathing major sighs of relief that the storm was not as devastating as expected.A 45-minute drive from an evacuation center in Pompano Beach and around the perimeter of the main Fort Lauderdale thoroughfares revealed no major surprises considering the fury of the storm.There were downed power lines and poles, uprooted trees, palm fronds, branches and the occasional unripened green coconut littering streets all around. At noon, not a single shop, mall, supermarket, drugstore, restaurant or fast-food drive-through was open for business, though some workers were using power tools to remove plywood boarding from the windows of homes and businesses.Broward County officials said schools could reopen later this week, and the Fort Lauderdale airport was scheduled to be operational as early as Tuesday.&lt;a href=&#034;https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/officials-half-of-florida-lacks-power/?utm_term=.e253d66d3b54&#034;&gt;No power&lt;/a&gt; in most areas also meant no traffic signals coming down U.S. 1, a main thoroughfare from Pompano Beach into Fort Lauderdale. Still, in an area known for its aggressive and often rude drivers, virtually everyone on the road was voluntarily stopping at intersections with nonoperational green or red lights and often courteously waving other motorists ahead of them.There was a heavy police presence on the streets, particularly at a number of drawbridges over canals and the intracoastal waterway. Several bridges were closed leading to A1A, the road that runs parallel to the shore, save for essential emergency vehicles, Florida Power and Light crews and residents trying to get back to their beachfront condominiums or homes.Flooding along A1A was the main concern, though there was not much of an ocean surge on Fort Lauderdale’s beaches. The Las Olas Boulevard bridge to the Fort Lauderdale beach was blocked to allow front-end loaders to remove a thick layer of sand, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Sand drifts about a foot high banked against the wave wall along the beach.Farther inland, many lower-lying side streets were flooded with several feet of water, but many cars drove through them as if they were ordinary puddles, not major problems.On Fort Lauderdale’s trendy downtown section on Las Olas, most of the damage also involved debris on the road. Several restaurant awnings, both canvas and metal frames, became dislodged in the winds, but virtually all the windows up and down the mile-long strip of shops, antique emporiums, restaurants and bars managed to survive, even those not boarded up or protected by metal grates.At the Coral Ridge Yacht Club on the Intracoastal Waterway, every yacht — including a 100-footer owned by former Washington Redskins offensive lineman Vinnie Promuto — escaped mostly unscathed save for bumps and bruises incurred from wind-aided flying objects. There were scads of boats seemingly safely moored in canals winding through and around a city known as “the Venice of America.”In Pompano Beach, the Broward County evacuation shelter at Pompano Beach High School started looking like the school cafeteria again Monday morning. By 10 a.m., all of the 225-plus temporary residents had departed, leaving behind a small staff that had managed the facility over the past five days and several sheriff’s deputies.The shelter lost power about noon Sunday as the outer reaches of the storm approached. A generator kicked in, but only to power the fluorescent lighting in the building. That also meant no air conditioning, and as the day wore on, condensing water from the dramatic change in temperatures coated the linoleum floors, turning them into Florida-style skating rings. Several people slipped and fell, but there were no injuries. Eventually, long rolls of paper were put down, providing safer walking areas, and old newspapers were used to dry up the wet floors.The contingent of eight deputies on duty at the shelter saw a little action Sunday. Someone complained that one of the evacuees was loitering around the two bathrooms in the facility, and it was determined he was a registered pedophile sex offender. He was taken out of the main area and placed in another part of the building under the supervision of several officers.Just as the winds subsided, a young man was spotted trying to break into a vehicle in the parking lot about 100 yards from the shelter. First one, then a half-dozen officers raced out, chased him down and arrested him, drawing the applause from many people witnessing it from inside. The officers then perp-walked the 17-year-old juvenile through a gauntlet of evacuees watching it all unfold, then cursing the shirtless teenager in a half-dozen languages. One officer who declined to give his name said the young man was “falling-down drunk, didn’t know where he was. When he dries out, because he’s a juvenile, they’ll probably release him to his parents.”&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#034;https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/09/11/flight-cancellations-number-in-the-thousands-as-irma-takes-aim-at-atlanta/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_irmaledeall-blurb-650a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.ea7dc0b2e035&#034;&gt;[Flight cancellations number in the thousands as Irma takes aim at Atlanta]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;As the shelter emptied out Monday morning, many departing residents walked up to staff members and police officers, shook their hands, patted them on the back and thanked them for their work over the previous days. Since Saturday, all of the staff and police officers were at the shelter around the clock, sleeping on the floor of a teachers lounge not far from the main cafeteria area.Meanwhile back in Fort Lauderdale, the cleanup was beginning with Monday’s first light. On a warm, sunny day with mild breezes, over in Victoria Park, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, Scott Keefe and his wife, Lynn, rode out the storm in their house with a few friends. Keefe said his power didn’t go out until about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, just as the storm seemed to be subsiding.Then he walked out on the street and pointed to a utility pole three doors away that had come crashing down when a tree fell on the wires.“We heard this crash, and then I guess the transformers exploded — boom, boom,” Keefe said. “That’s when we lost power. We’ve got tree damage, a lot of debris, just like everyone else. And no power. But I’ve got a generator, so we’ll manage fine.”Then he added, just as most everyone else in this area was saying Monday, “Hey, it could have been a lot worse.”",
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				{
					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "&amp;#8216;I think they overkilled it&amp;#8217;",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T18:44:38.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/i-think-they-overkilled-it/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Joel Achenbach"
					},
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						"@value":"PINECREST, Fla. — Driving around South Miami-Dade is like being a mouse in a maze, looking for the way out. Almost every street has a tree down. Go left, go left again, go right, go 10 blocks, go right again — no, blocked. Somewhere out there is South Dixie Highway, or maybe a piece of cheese.The first clean-up day here is a day of damage assessments, after-action reports, lessons learned, and second-guessing. Also recrimination.The governor and local officials warned that Hurricane Irma, coming in from the Caribbean as a Category 5 hurricane, posed a threat to the entire peninsula. Nearly 6 million people were told to evacuate. This looked like a storm for the ages. Those of us in the news media made many comparisons to the killer storm Andrew of 1992.But Irma, though a huge and impressive storm, also proved quirky. It was less devastating than expected in Key West and in Southwest Florida, where it made landfall. Miami and the rest of the Gold Coast got badly shredded with all-day hurricane-force gusts, and the number of people without power is staggering — millions and millions — but Irma does not appear to have been a catastrophic tropical cyclone.&lt;em&gt;[&lt;a href=&#034;https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/11/why-hurricane-irma-wasnt-far-worse-and-how-close-it-came-to-catastrophe/?utm_term=.87db84d37449&#034;&gt;Why Hurricane Irma wasn’t far worse, and how close it came to catastrophe&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/em&gt;Some people believe the storm got hyped.“Everyone got stirred up, and they were told to leave. And now there’s no one to clean the trees up,” said Sara Edelman, 29, a biologist walking along 104&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; St with her mother Philis Edelman, 60, an officer worker.“The media and the governor stirring people up into an absolute frenzy didn’t help the situation,” Philis said.“’Total annihilation,’ that was my favorite one,” Sara said, quoting a news report she’d heard.“They started evacuating way too early,” said attorney Dan Zumpano, 44, who lives nearby. “In the abundance of caution, I thought it was the right thing to do, but I think they sent a lot of people right into the core of the hurricane.”That was a familiar story: People who evacuated from Miami to Tampa. And then, in some cases, from Tampa to Orlando. The storm chased those people the whole way. “Every day you saw the models changing,” Zumpano said.And then there were the breathless TV reports.“I think they overkilled it,” said his neighbor, Luis Arguello, 46, a sales director.Irma arrived in the formidable shadow of Harvey, which drowned Houston. It also came in looking as fierce as Andrew, which ripped off thousands of roofs in South Dade in 1992 and showed what a Category 5 hurricane could do.“After what happened with Harvey, a lot of people were paying attention,” said Alejandro Rodriguez, 32, a financial adviser.Bob Brown, 59, an architect (and longtime friend of this reporter), considered evacuating when the storm track Thursday looked particularly ominous, but chose to stay in Evacuation Zone B, part of the county’s “mandatory” evacuation area. “When you leave, you head into an endless series of unknowns. There are literally no knowns. Gas, lodging, even the storm’s direction. If you stay, you at least have the knowns of a lifetime.”When the full story of Irma is told, including the assessments of the scientific community, it will likely be another reminder that hurricanes are not easily categorized or measured.",
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				{
					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "Duke Energy: Over 1 million customers in Florida without power",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T18:34:54.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/duke-energy-over-1-million-customers-in-florida-without-power/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Katie Zezima"
					},
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						"@value":"&lt;script async src=&#034;//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&#034; charset=&#034;utf-8&#034;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;Duke Energy, which serves about 1.8 million customers in Florida, said the vast majority of its subscribers are without power as of Monday afternoon.About 1.2 million customers are still without electricity since Hurricane Irma swept through the state, spokeswoman Shawna Berger said.The hardest hit areas are Pinellas County on the west coast, where 415,000 of the company’s 541,000 customers are without power, and Orange County in central Florida, which covers Orlando, where 230,000 of its 369,000 customers are without power.",
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				{
					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "&amp;#8216;The Keys are not open for business&amp;#8217;",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T18:07:15.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/the-keys-are-not-open-for-business/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Sandhya Somashekhar and Patricia Sullivan"
					},
					"articleBody": {
						"@value":"Officials in the Florida Keys have a warning for tourists and residents: &lt;a href=&#034;http://www.monroecounty-fl.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=894&#034; target=&#034;_blank&#034; rel=&#034;noopener noreferrer&#034;&gt;Stay away until further notice&lt;/a&gt;.“The Keys are not open for business,” officials in Monroe County wrote in a statement this morning. “The wind may have stopped blowing, but for most of the Florida Keys, there is no fuel, electricity, running water, or cell service. For many people, supplies are running low and anxiety is running high.”The island chain south of mainland Florida took the brunt of Hurricane Irma when it &lt;a href=&#034;https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/09/dangerous-hurricane-irma-bears-down-on-florida-its-brunt-targeting-the-keys-to-tampa/?utm_term=.c7c49901575d&#034;&gt;struck land as a Category 4 storm Sunday morning&lt;/a&gt;, and officials there are still assessing the damage. U.S. Route 1, the only way in or out of the Keys, is shut down while crews examine roads and bridges to make sure they are safe for passage.&lt;script async src=&#034;//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&#034; charset=&#034;utf-8&#034;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;The county is also asking people to not clog the highway in Florida City, where Route 1 crosses from the mainland into the Keys.“Traffic backing up in Florida City is creating longer wait times for ground crews to get into the area,” officials wrote. “With growing concern for loved ones and property, many people are eager to get back to the keys.”Elsewhere in Florida, major roadways opened. The causeway between the mainland at Fort Myers and the Sanibel-Captiva islands, which was closed because of the hurricane, was reopened at midday Monday, the Lee County Department of Transportation said.Residents who had been told they would not be able to return home until Tuesday are now cleared to return, said Betsy Clayton, the public information officer for the Lee County government. There is no electrical power, no water service and no sewer treatment service, but vegetation has been cleared from the main roads, although some residential streets may still be blocked.Like the Keys, Sanibel and Captiva are a popular tourist destination during the winter tourist season.",
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				{
					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "Watch timelapse video of Hurricane Irma&amp;#8217;s destruction in Miami",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T17:21:41.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/watch-timelapse-video-of-hurricane-irmas-destruction-in-miami/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Elyse Samuels"
					},
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				{
					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "Waterspout spotted along Isle of Palms in S.C.",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T17:05:42.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/waterspout-spotted-along-isle-of-palms-in-s-c/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Dustin Waters"
					},
					"articleBody": {
						"@value":"&lt;script async src=&#034;//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&#034; charset=&#034;utf-8&#034;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;CHARLESTON, S.C. — A waterspout was spotted along the coast of the Isle of Palms, briefly spinning up from the sea and dissipating as it reached the beach, dumping seawater along the already inundated shore.As powerful winds batter the coast and floodwaters continue to rise, Charleston County has suspended all EMS operations due to sustained winds in excess of 40 miles per hour. The call to pull all emergency vehicles from roadways came around 12:30 p.m., just minutes after water levels reached high tide at Charleston Harbor.Charleston County Consolidated 911 Dispatch operators issued a call for all emergency crews to “Please shelter in place” as reports of downed power lines and flooded roadways continued to come in across the radio. As fire and rescue services were suspended across the county, one crew said it was continuing en route to an emergency call for a possible cardiac arrest.“Use extreme caution,” stressed the voice of the 911 operator on the other end of the line.SCE&amp;G reports almost 90,000 power outages across the state, as off 12:40 p.m., 26,832 of which stem from Charleston County.The National Weather Service has extended a tornado watch for the southern coast of South Carolina, including Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, and Jasper counties. Charleston County opened two shelters Sunday afternoon, which currently house 90 residents.Rising tide levels have reached 9 feet in Charleston Harbor as waves crash up over the seawall that runs along the tip of the Charleston peninsula.",
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				{
					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "At Miami mobile home park, a festive mood as cleanup begins",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T16:53:44.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/at-miami-mobile-home-park-a-festive-mood-as-clean-up-begins/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Perry Stein"
					},
					"articleBody": {
						"@value":"The residents of Royal Duke Trailer Court in Miami were just happy to see their homes still standing Monday. Many of them evacuated thinking their mobile homes would be no match for Irma, and were surprised to see the storm weaken just enough to spare their homes.So the mood at the park on Monday was almost festive. Neighbors were out, talking in Spanish, laughing and helping one another clean up the tree debris.Their &lt;a href=&#034;https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/officials-half-of-florida-lacks-power/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_liveblog-12p%3Aprime-time%2Fpromo&amp;utm_term=.df6a72206e63&#034;&gt;power was still out Monday&lt;/a&gt;, so no one wanted to be inside.Children were riding their bikes and one family was making beans and baleadas — a Honduran dish — on their outdoor grill for everyone.Kat Suarez’s family home took a large tree trunk to its roof. The roof of the two bedroom house was damaged, but it didn’t puncture through the home’s ceiling. The park had some flooding at its edges, but structurally, that roof damage seemed to be the worst the trailers sustained. The park also lost many large trees that groups of men dragged off the property on Monday.“We didn’t think this was going to make it,” said Suarez, whose family has lived in the home since before she was born. “It’s bad, but it wasn’t as bad as we thought. I didn’t think it was going to be here when we got back.”Some people decided to ride out the storm together, making a party of it as they drank beer and alcohol with their neighbors.“I stayed here so I could tell everyone what happened,” said Victoria Barrella.",
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				{
					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "Officials: Half of Florida lacks power",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T16:45:16.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/officials-half-of-florida-lacks-power/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Katie Zezima"
					},
					"articleBody": {
						"@value":"&lt;script async src=&#034;//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&#034; charset=&#034;utf-8&#034;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;Eric Silagy, the president and CEO of Florida Power and Light, said he believes &lt;a href=&#034;http://www.floridadisaster.org/info/outage_reports/latest.pdf&#034;&gt;half of Florida is out of power&lt;/a&gt;.“More than half of the population of Florida is out of power would be my guess,” he said at a news conference Monday morning. Anywhere from 8.5 to 9 million people were affected by the company’s outages – and while it is the state’s largest power supplier, it is not the only one.According to power outage data tweeted by the Florida Division of Emergency Management at noon, two-thirds of customers across the state are without power – just under 10 million accounts.  In St. John’s County, which includes St. Augustine, 100 percent of customers have outages. About three-quarters of customers in Miami-Dade are without power, as are 96 percent of customers in Collier County, which includes Naples.Silagy said 4.2 million Florida Power and Light accounts were impacted; the utility’s website said it has about 4.9 million total customer accounts.“We’ve never had that many outages. I don’t think any utility in the country has,” Silagy said.And it might take a very long time for some people to get their power back.“People could be out of power for weeks,” he said. “It absolutely could be weeks if we have to rebuild parts of the system.”&lt;script async src=&#034;//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&#034; charset=&#034;utf-8&#034;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;Silagy said some customers had service restored, only to lose it again. The utility has not been able to get crews out in northern Florida because the storm is still raging.“Irma hasn’t left,” he said.The utility’s two nuclear plants are safe and secure, he said, and the utility is in the process of doing final checks on them.At least 19,500 employees are fanning out across Florida to restore power, he said. The utility is also trying to secure more line and vegetation crews from out of state. Some crews, he said, are coming straight from restoring power in Texas. Because of the storm’s size, crews were not able to start restoration efforts until late last night, and they are still not able to move across northern Florida.He also said debris is strewn throughout the state.“This is a storm that has probably produced more debris than we’ve ever seen in the history of storms,” he said. “We’ve had 10 years of growth that got pruned yesterday from Hurricane Irma and unfortunately a lot of that ended up on our power lines.”",
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				{
					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "Making the best of things in San Juan",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T16:39:00.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/making-the-best-of-things-in-san-juan/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Daniel Cassady"
					},
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						"@value":"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Though Hurricane Irma showed her true strength on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra, just under 23 miles from the closest mainland city, Fajardo, she just skimmed by the Puerto Rico’s capital city, San Juan.Still, the effect Irma left on the residents of San Juan and its outlying neighborhoods is still being felt nearly a week later. Much of Old San Juan is still without electricity and some homes and businesses are without running water.The same is true in other San Juan neighborhoods.Houses and apartments in Condado, a beachfront neighborhood filled with hotels and restaurants, has had the power come on like a patchwork, one home fully powered and the neighboring building still completely dark.In Santurce, felled trees still litter parks and block sidewalks and empty lots, and in Hato Rey, those who are lucky enough to have balconies and porches drag out their mattresses out of their bedrooms in the evening to take advantage of the cool night air while they sleep.Driving around it’s hard not to notice that only a handful of streetlights and traffic signals are functional.Still, there are people trying to make the best of a situation that is completely out of their hands.Rolando Lucca, 34, is the owner of La Cubanita, a popular bar on Calle San Jose in Old San Juan. Over the weekend, despite the fact that he had no power at or water at his Miramar apartment or on the street where his bar is located, he decided it was time to open up shop.Both Rolando and his brother, Willie Lucca, 35, were in Puerto Rico for Hurricanes George and Hugo and were expecting massive damage from Irma, perhaps even worse, so their preparation for Irma was nothing if not thorough.Before Irma made her run for the island, Rolando and his coworkers went about storing every bottle and every can of beer, every mixing glass and every coupe, turning off the breakers, unplugging all the appliances, and boarding up the windows and doors.By Friday night, two days after the storm, Rolando was back at the bar. He had hooked up the essentials, beer fridges and Christmas lights, to a gas powered generator, restocking all the beer and mounting every bottle and glass, and at around 7 p.m. opened up for business.“I discussed opening the bar with the other partners, and we all agreed. It was a natural decision,” says Rolando. “People have been stuck in their homes with no power, with no water. That can become unbearable. Not only because of the heat but also because you begin to feel trapped.”Willie added, “We still have cellular service, so thanks to social media we were able to see how badly people felt the need for someplace to go where they could charge there phones, connect to the internet, and meet with friends. We knew they needed somewhere to go.”“It feels good to be able to receive locals, and people visiting the island who didn’t expect to be stuck here,” said Rolando, “who just want to socialize, to share their experience of the storm. Sleeping in the heat and not having water is very difficult and we feel proud that people can come here to sit under fans that work and have a cold beer, too finally be able to cool off, if only for a while.”",
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				{
					"@type": "BlogPosting",
					"headline": "Key West &amp;#8216;not nearly as bad as everyone predicted&amp;#8217;",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T15:51:53.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/key-west-not-nearly-as-bad-as-everyone-predicted/",
					"author": {
						"name": "Josh White"
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						"@value":"Scott Unger got up at 7 a.m. on Sunday hoping to stare Hurricane Irma in the eye.The wind on Key West, the southernmost point on the continental United States, was whipping hard, as was the rain, and every now and again a tree would fall with a crash. The turmoil was unrelenting, constant, and it went on for hours. As far as Unger could tell, there was never any calm, just chaos.When Irma moved on and the rain waned, finally, in the midday light, the island found itself instead in the dark. No power. No water. No cellphone service. Unger, a reporter for the Key West Citizen, went to take a look around.Though predictions had been dire, what Unger saw wasn’t. Sure, trees were down — a Gumbo Limbo here and a large mahogany there — but none that he saw had hit much of anything, really. There was flooding, too. Three-feet deep in some parts, mostly in low-lying areas and especially around the Key West Bight. Some places well-known to tourists — including Caroline Street, of Jimmy Buffett lyrics — were under floodwaters.But a catastrophe didn’t materialize on Key West.“There is some damage, but it’s far from catastrophic,” said Unger, who is working as a freelancer for The Washington Post this week. He trudged around town on Sunday surveying the damage. “Everyone we’ve talked to is happy and fine and considering it a win for Key West. Everyone’s in good spirits. The general sense is that we lucked out and it’s not nearly as bad as everyone predicted.”&lt;a href=&#034;http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article172503266.html&#034;&gt;The Miami Herald reported&lt;/a&gt; that trees smashed a couple of houses in Key West — including, neighbors said, one belonging to “the late, great children’s book author Shel Silverstein.” The Herald also reported that damage appeared to be far worse on islands to the east, near where Irma made landfall and its eyewall carried destructive force.Unger was among the estimated 25 percent of Key West’s population that stayed to ride out the storm, ignoring evacuation orders. He said there were numerous people there Sunday after the storm passed. “It’s by no means a ghost town,” he said.But Key West did go a bit back in time. There was almost no way to reach anyone off the island. Without power there was no Internet. Without cell service there was no phone. No information coming in, no information coming out.To reach out to someone not on the island — to an editor in Washington — Unger and others had to get creative. At the offices of the Key West Citizen, operating under generator power Sunday, there is a fax machine. Upon close inspection, the fax machine allows for outgoing calls. How? No one seemed to know.“A lot of people are concerned about getting the word out because we’re all cut off,” Unger said. “People are concerned about their loved ones in other places knowing they’re okay.”",
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					"headline": "6 million Floridians without power &amp;#8212; the breakdown",
					"datePublished": "2017-09-11T15:31:15.000Z",

					"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/6-million-floridians-without-power-the-breakdown/",
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						"name": "Sandhya Somashekhar"
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						"@value":"Here are the latest figures for power outages in Florida. Populous Miami-Dade and Broward counties lead the pack, with 1.1 million and 933,000, respectively.&lt;script async src=&#034;//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&#034; charset=&#034;utf-8&#034;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;",
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href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/live-updates/weather/hurricane-irma-a-monster-storms-devastating-path/they-helped-rescue-animals-after-harvey-theyre-now-doing-the-same-during-irma/">They helped rescue animals after Harvey; now they&#8217;re doing the same during Irma</a></div> </div> <div class="liveblog-post-body"> <div id="fb-root"></div><div class="oembed clearfix" style=""> <div class="posttv-video-embed powa" data-org="wapo" data-uuid="4a0f155a-9108-11e7-8482-8dc9a7af29f9" data-ad-bar="1" data-playthrough="1" data-blurb="1" data-object-id="59ac9eabe4b00a62690bfdba" data-youtube-id="8LTNl2pCXVo" data-live="0" data-aspect-ratio="0.5625"> <script src="https://d1pz6dax0t5mop.cloudfront.net/prod/PoWaLoaderWapo.js"></script> </div></div> <p>ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — After spending Friday and Saturday packing 25 dogs and nine cats into flight crates to be flown away from Hurricane Irma, Mike Merrill and his wife, Kathy, began to weather-proof their St. Johns County home on Sunday.</p> <p>The sky was gunmetal gray all day, two to three inches of rain soaked the ground and the wind gusted up to 36 mph, courtesy of a strong nor’easter that gave an early taste of what Irma would bring late Sunday night and early Monday morning. By noon, the first bands of Irma reached into Flagler and St. Johns counties, and a tornado warning was posted for St. Augustine, the historic city on the northeast Florida coast.</p> <p>“I’m doing what I should have done three days ago,” Merrill said after he’d nailed plywood across a front window of his five-bedroom home in a gated equestrian community in the fast-growing northwestern part of the county. He felt safe with a generator and a home with cement-reinforced walls.</p> <p>Merrill is the president of Florida Urgent Rescue (FUR). The group was one of five local rescues that helped out after Hurricane Harvey, delivering more than 4,000 pounds of dog and cat food and bringing 17 dogs back to Jacksonville.</p> <p>Once that work was done, Merrill then turned his attention to Irma. Most shelters in rural parts of the state are full of animals and sparsely staffed, he explained. They aren’t able to locate enough volunteers to foster animals during storms in order to clear room at shelters to care for animals stranded by Irma.</p> <p>“When you have a shelter full of animals, and our local shelters are very full, and then you get a wave of strays, there’s no place for them to go,” said Merrill. “The only thing to do is to kill a bunch of dogs or cats already in shelters to make room for the strays.”</p> <p>To prevent that, FUR took 24 dogs and nine cats from shelters in Bradford, Baker, Clay and Putnam counties and flew them to no-kill shelters in Minneapolis and Indiana. Delta Air Lines provided free transport.  Two pregnant dogs and two emaciated dogs remain here.</p> <p>By Sunday, the Merrills were in hunker-down mode. With loaves of bread, snacks and cases of LaCroix water heaped upon the kitchen island, it looked like they were about to host an end-of-summer pool party. The Merrills planned to ride out Irma with 11 dogs and a cat.</p> <p>They have a full house. In addition to the Merrills’ six large dogs, Jeanne Forney, 58, brought her dogs Myah and Johnny and three puppies she is fostering. She evacuated her home near the Intracoastal Waterway in Jacksonville Beach. Forney is vice president of FUR. Another friend is staying there with her cat.</p> <p>Asked about provisions for the dogs, Kathy Merrill reached in a cloth shopping bag and pulled out five boxes of dog biscuits. She emptied another bag filled with assorted dog treats onto the kitchen counter.</p> <p>“We have enough food to last awhile. 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