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Limbaugh indicates he&#8217;s evacuating Palm Beach days after suggesting Hurricane Irma is fake news</h1> </div> <wp-ad id="slug_tiffany_tile" data-ad-type="tiffany_tile" class="hidden-xs right"></wp-ad> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div></section> <section id="main-content" class="col-xl-9 col-lg-8 col-md-8 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 col-xs-offset-0 col-sm-offset-0 col-md-offset-0 col-lg-offset-0 layout"> <div class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-article-deck" moat-id="article/article-deck|politics" data-chain-name="no-name" data-feature-name="no-name" data-feature-id="article/article-deck" data-pb-fingerprint="0fTQxGB0JpP" id="fw5mxe2IZgmwyq"> </div> <div class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-article-body" moat-id="article/article-body|politics" data-chain-name="no-name" 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(Ron Edmonds/AP)</span> </div> <p><em>I wrote on Wednesday about Rush Limbaugh's claim that the media is manufacturing unwarranted panic about Hurricane Irma as part of a plot to hype climate change, boost ratings and increase advertising revenue from businesses that stand to make money off purchases of batteries and bottled water. </em></p> <p><em>Limbaugh then accused The Washington Post and other news outlets of twisting his words while simultaneously doubling down on his conspiracy theory on Thursday.</em></p> <p><em>“I explained how severe weather events are opportunities for big ratings boosts in the media and explained how it happens,” he said. “I explained how severe weather events impact retailers and how some retailers are smart enough to coordinate advertising with television stations. It happens!”</em></p> <p><em>Limbaugh said something else on Thursday: He indicated he is evacuating his <a href="http://hauteliving.com/2007/06/celebrity-living-palm-beach/294/">Palm Beach mansion</a>, from which he broadcasts daily, for "parts unknown."</em></p> <p><em>“May as well go ahead and announce this,” he said. “I'm not going to get into details because of the security nature of things, but it turns out that we will not be able to do the program here tomorrow. ... We'll be on the air next week, folks, from parts unknown. So we'll be back on Monday. It's just that tomorrow is going to be problematic. Tomorrow it would be, I think, legally impossible for us to originate the program out of here.”</em></p> <p><em>Limbaugh presented the departure as more of an inconvenience than a proper response to imminent danger.</em></p> <p><em>“You know, I had to cancel a bunch of stuff,” he said. “I was going to go to a private movie screening this afternoon, and I had a bunch of stuff to do tonight, and now that's all blown to smithereens.”</em></p> <p><em>The Fix's original post follows:</em></p> <p>Rush Limbaugh didn't say the magic words, but on Tuesday he basically accused the media of creating fake news about Hurricane Irma, which is threatening Florida after <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/09/05/may-god-protect-us-all-the-tiny-islands-in-irmas-path-brace-for-the-worst/">hitting</a> Barbuda and Antigua. The storm's 185-mile-per-hour winds tied the record high for any Atlantic hurricane making landfall.</p> <p channel="wp.com" class="interstitial-link"> <i> [<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/05/catastrophic-hurricane-irma-now-a-cat-5-is-on-a-collision-course-with-florida/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_cwg-irma-nowcat5-1130am:homepage/story&amp;utm_term=.7a1e79f059da">Category 5 Hurricane Irma slams Lesser Antilles, and is targeting Florida</a>] </i> </p> <p>“These storms, once they actually hit, are never as strong as they're reported,” Limbaugh claimed on his syndicated radio show. He added that “the graphics have been created to make it look like the ocean's having an exorcism, just getting rid of the devil here in the form of this hurricane, this bright red stuff.”</p> <p>Why would the media exaggerate the threat of a hurricane? Here's Limbaugh's theory:</p> <blockquote class="citation"><p>There is symbiotic relationship between retailers and local media, and it’s related to money. It revolves around money. You have major, major industries and businesses which prosper during times of crisis and panic, such as a hurricane, which could destroy or greatly damage people’s homes, and it could interrupt the flow of water and electricity. So what happens?</p> <p>Well, the TV stations begin reporting this and the panic begins to increase. And then people end up going to various stores to stock up on water and whatever they might need for home repairs and batteries and all this that they’re advised to get, and a vicious circle is created. You have these various retail outlets who spend a lot of advertising dollars with the local media.</p> <p>The local media, in turn, reports in such a way as to create the panic way far out, which sends people into these stores to fill up with water and to fill up with batteries, and it becomes a never-ending repeated cycle. And the two coexist. So the media benefits with the panic with increased eyeballs, and the retailers benefit from the panic with increased sales, and the TV companies benefit because they’re getting advertising dollars from the businesses that are seeing all this attention from customers.</p></blockquote> <p>To state the obvious, these are potentially dangerous comments from Limbaugh, who is based in Palm Beach, Fla. He is encouraging listeners who might be in Irma's path not to take seriously the official guidance disseminated through the media.</p> <p>“I wish that not everything that involved news had become corrupted and politicized, but it just has,” he said.</p> <p>More broadly, Limbaugh's bad advice reveals the metastasizing nature of “fake news” attacks on the press, which have been led by President Trump. How did we get from Trump's <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/16/donald-trumps-grievance-filled-press-conference-annotated/">claim</a> that he has “never seen more dishonest media than, frankly, the political media” to the idea that <em>weather reports</em> are phony, too?</p> <p>Alex Jones might have something to do with it. The Infowars founder — who has an “amazing” reputation, according to Trump — has for years <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/oklahoma-tornado-conspiracy-theories/314987/">promoted</a> the notion that the U.S. government possesses the power to conjure and control weather events. Just last week, as Hurricane Harvey battered Texas, Jones devoted part of his show to questioning why the government didn't “use the technologies to kill [the storm] out in the gulf.”</p> <p>“It is weird how these storms go,” he said, suggesting Harvey might have been manufactured or manipulated. “They just sit over a city.”</p> <p>Jones's contention is that the government — or, more precisely, the “deep state,” now that Trump is president — uses its “weather weapon” to stoke fear of climate change and promote a liberal agenda.</p> <p>Jones might be a fringe figure, but he increasingly bleeds into the mainstream, thanks in part to Trump's validation. Witness Limbaugh's monologue about Irma, which echoed some of Jones's conspiracy theory.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-video"> <div class="posttv-video-embed powa" data-ad-bar="1" data-aspect-ratio="0.5625" data-blurb="1" data-live="0" data-object-id="582cce4ee4b015a84b9d2003" data-org="wapo" data-playthrough="1" data-uuid="e9a27450-ac42-11e6-8f19-21a1c65d2043" data-youtube-id="_nqVbMFXrQ4"> <script async="" src="https://www.washingtonpost.com/player/prod/PoWaLoaderWapo.js?_=20180216"></script> </div> <div class="inline-video-caption"> <span class="pb-caption">Alex Jones was a powerful underground voice for the alternative conservative media, but he became a more mainstream figure in December 2015, when Donald Trump, then a Republican presidential candidate, spent 30 minutes on Jones's radio program, "Info Wars." (Erin Patrick O'Connor,Manuel Roig-Franzia/The Washington Post)</span> </div> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <p>Limbaugh, a fellow Trump booster, didn't say the deep state <em>causes</em> storms, but he did say “you have people in all of these government areas who believe man is causing climate change, and they’re hellbent on proving it, they’re hellbent on demonstrating it, they’re hellbent on persuading people of it.”</p> <p>Limbaugh didn't say the deep state <em>directs</em> storms toward major cities, but he did say “hurricanes are always forecast to hit major population centers because, after all, major population centers is where the major damage will take place and where we can demonstrate that these things are getting bigger and they’re getting more frequent and they’re getting worse — all because of climate change.”</p> <p>Thus we have two of the president's biggest promoters in the media telling people that news about a storm — or perhaps even the storm itself — is fake. There could be serious consequences to Trump's ceaseless effort to lower trust in institutions such as the government and the press — consequences that the president and his team might not have fully considered.</p> <p>On the morning before Harvey hit Texas, CNN's Jim Acosta tweeted that a moment when “millions will be relying on national and local news outlets to stay safe during hurricane” is “not a good time to take shots at 'fake news.'”</p> <p>Brad Parscale, the digital media director of Trump's campaign, scoffed at Acosta's warning, tweeting that “nobody said the weather is fake.”</p> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Not a good time to take shots at "fake news." Millions will be relying on national and local news outlets to stay safe during hurricane.</p> <p>— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/901057442028670976">August 25, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Nobody said the weather is fake. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FakeNews?src=hash">#FakeNews</a> is <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN">@cnn</a> really acting like a Super PAC and not a news outlet. <a href="https://t.co/HBUhBDVvgg">https://t.co/HBUhBDVvgg</a></p> <p>— Brad Parscale (@parscale) <a href="https://twitter.com/parscale/status/901077298505539584">August 25, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <p>Actually, whether Parscale and Trump realize it or not, somebody <em>does</em> say the weather is fake.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-gallery-embedded"> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/c/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/css/d9cb19704f.css?_=f2022" rel="stylesheet"/> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/p/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/style.css?_=512fa" rel="stylesheet"/> <script>window.pbDeferredSSISingle=window.pbDeferredSSISingle||new Array;</script> <div class="pb-container"> <div class="pb-feature-ssi-single pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false pb-3 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-gallery-gallery" data-chain-name="no-name" data-feature-id="gallery/gallery" data-feature-name="no-name" data-pb-feature-config="gallery/gallery" data-pb-fingerprint="0fh3taXsipu" id="fVVe782Ko8Tvoq"> <div class="wp-volt-gal unprocessed wp-volt-gal-p-end-circular wp-volt-gal-promo-stub wp-volt-gal-on-promo-slide wp-volt-gal-embed-promo wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-hide" data-blurb="Irma wielded the most powerful winds ever recorded for a storm in the Atlantic Ocean. 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" data-credit="Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/11/Health-Environment-Science/Images/2017-09-11T113338Z_1033923868_RC1781428D30_RTRMADP_3_STORM-IRMA-SAINT-MARTIN.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="77497a88-96e9-11e7-87fc-c3f7ee4035c9"> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide-gal-title"></div> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Power lines are damaged by Hurricane Irma in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The storm ravaged such lush resort islands as St. Martin, St. Barts, St. Thomas, Barbuda and Anguilla. " data-credit="Ricardo Arduengo/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/11/National-Enterprise/Images/St_Thomas_Hurricane_Irma_43518-63ffb.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4896" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 10, 2017 " data-uuid="f5dc18be-96ea-11e7-87fc-c3f7ee4035c9"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A tourist from Chile sips rum after the passage of Hurricane Irma in Varadero, Cuba. " data-credit="Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/11/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-11T042552Z_450824180_RC1B93616180_RTRMADP_3_STORM-IRMA-CUBA-RELIEF.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="f6347b80-96ea-11e7-87fc-c3f7ee4035c9"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Relief materials and supplies are offloaded from a French helicopter by officers on the French half of St. Martin in this picture issued by the French Ministry of Defense." data-credit="Guillaume Cabre/Defense Armee de Terre/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/11/National-Enterprise/Images/06197836.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2030" data-ratio="1.45" data-title=" Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="064c3680-96ea-11e7-87fc-c3f7ee4035c9"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="French firemen provide bottles of water to residents of the Sandy Ground area of Marigot, on St. Martin island, devastated by Hurricane Irma. People on the islands of St. Martin and St. Barts now turn to the colossal task of rebuilding. " data-credit="Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/11/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SB1WY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5568" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="43caa33e-96ea-11e7-87fc-c3f7ee4035c9"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A woman carries a container of water in Marigot on the island of St. Martin." data-credit="Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SA8IA.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5568" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="674b82c8-9646-11e7-b569-3360011663b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A mother comforts her child as they wait in front of the entrance to Grand-Case Esperance Airport to leave St. Martin." data-credit="Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SA8TZ.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5568" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="493afbe8-964a-11e7-b569-3360011663b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Residents walk on Havana’s sea wall as the ocean crashes into it, after the passing of Hurricane Irma. " data-credit="Ramon Espinosa/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/Production/Daily/A-Section/Images/Cuba_Hurricane_Irma_95123-51e0d.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5168" data-ratio="1.499" data-title=" Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="53de2e3e-966e-11e7-82e4-f1076f6d6152"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A Cuban wades through a flooded street in Havana." data-credit="Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/Production/Daily/A-Section/Images/AFP_SA7OT.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.569" data-title=" Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="e4f2f7ec-963c-11e7-87fc-c3f7ee4035c9"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Cubans wade through a flooded street in Havana. Hurricane Irma battered central Cuba, knocking down power lines, uprooting trees, ripping the roofs off homes and causing flooding in the country’s capital." data-credit="Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/Production/Daily/A-Section/Images/AFP_SA7P6.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.588" data-title=" Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="e54e6366-963c-11e7-87fc-c3f7ee4035c9"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Cubans work to clean a street in Havana." data-credit="Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SB089.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4256" data-ratio="1.503" data-title=" Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="e0c63372-9660-11e7-b569-3360011663b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A man carries a homemade boat along a street in Havana." data-credit="Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SB08E.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4256" data-ratio="1.503" data-title="Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="dba050c6-9660-11e7-b569-3360011663b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A rescue team looks for people outside a house on a flooded street in Havana." data-credit="Ramon Espinosa/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/National-Enterprise/Images/Cuba_Hurricane_Irma_79517-5de17.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4444" data-ratio="1.499" data-title=" Sept. 10, 2017" data-uuid="fdc49070-9667-11e7-b569-3360011663b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Rough seas flood a sea wall on the eastern end of Nassau, Bahamas." data-credit="Tim Aylen/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/National-Enterprise/Images/Bahamas_Tropical_Weather_39693-369d1.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3920" data-ratio="1.563" data-title=" Sept 9, 2017" data-uuid="5c998b20-9620-11e7-82e4-f1076f6d6152"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Residents walk near downed power lines in Caibarien, Cuba." data-credit="Desmond Boylan/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/National-Enterprise/Images/APTOPIX_Cuba_Hurricane_Irma_70382-bc023.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5243" data-ratio="1.527" data-title="Sept. 9, 2017 " data-uuid="86d1d582-9620-11e7-82e4-f1076f6d6152"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Cubans stand by a collapsed building in Havana." data-credit="Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SA0RN.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.596" data-title="Sept. 9, 2017 " data-uuid="cd8cdc56-9620-11e7-82e4-f1076f6d6152"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Locals wade through a flooded street after the passage of Hurricane Irma in Caibarien, Cuba." data-credit="Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/10/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_SA22O.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4000" data-ratio="1.606" data-title="Sept. 9, 2017 " data-uuid="470e2f7c-9620-11e7-82e4-f1076f6d6152"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="This image taken from a social-media video shows damage of buildings on Saba Rock, British Virgin Islands." data-credit="Caribbean Buzz Helicopters/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/08/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-08T193521Z_187461658_RC1E45D7C600_RTRMADP_3_STORM-IRMA.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2541" data-ratio="1.944" data-title="Sept. 8, 2017" data-uuid="4b717dd2-94cf-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A man walks along a street covered in debris near Marigo after Hurricane Irma passed St. Martin. " data-credit="Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/08/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_S92WS.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5568" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 8, 2017" data-uuid="eb3a9d2a-94e4-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Debris is scattered in Orient Bay on St. Martin." data-credit="Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/Interactivity/Images/AFP_S807O.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="1914" data-ratio="1.499" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017" data-uuid="9af20ed6-9415-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Damage is seen in Philipsburg, on the Dutch side of the island St. Martin." data-credit="Gerben Van Es/Dutch Department of Defense/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/08/National-Enterprise/Images/06191556.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017  " data-uuid="a8cf5ec6-948f-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People walk on a sand-covered street of Marigot, on the island of St. Martin." data-credit="Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_S755A.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="1893" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017" data-uuid="3371dd90-93f2-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Debris lies on the ground near the damaged Casino Royale on the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin." data-credit="Anna Mazur/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_S76K4.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3600" data-ratio="1.777" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017 " data-uuid="09ec2a0e-93f0-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Damaged vehicles are seen on the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin." data-credit="Social Media/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-07T143916Z_33537352_RC1F5570CAF0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-IRMA-SINT-MAARTEN-UGC.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="1200" data-ratio="1.333" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017 " data-uuid="258367d6-93f1-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A view of wreckage in the vicinity of the Santurce neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico." data-credit="Thais Llorca/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/06190443.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2000" data-ratio="1.515" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017 " data-uuid="a36204c0-93ef-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="An employee works to remove a fallen tree from a rooftop in Fajardo, Puerto Rico." data-credit="Carlos Giusti/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/Puerto_Rico_Hurricane_Irma_14721-4f214.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="6000" data-ratio="1.498" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017 " data-uuid="fd0ae202-93f0-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A woman crosses a road covered in rocks in Fajardo, Puerto Rico." data-credit="Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_S76U7.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4896" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017 " data-uuid="cef4737a-93ef-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People look down on a flooded street from a roof in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic." data-credit="Luis Tavarez/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/06190109.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="1620" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017 " data-uuid="449570e2-93f1-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A young man walks through a flooded street in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic." data-credit="Luis Tavarez/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/06190108.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="1620" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017 " data-uuid="39209ade-93f1-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Flooded houses are seen in Gustavia on St. Barts." data-credit="Kevin Barrallon/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_S709D.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.333" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017" data-uuid="f31d2886-93be-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Steven Gayer walks away with sandbags in Miami Beach." data-credit="Mark Wilson/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/843698442.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.403" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017 " data-uuid="0c3e4a20-93c9-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Residents line up at Frost Park in Dania Beach, Fla., and fill up sandbags." data-credit="Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/Hurricane_Irma_53757-ef5c9.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5472" data-ratio="1.698" data-title="Sept. 7, 2017  " data-uuid="b7649202-93f0-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People take shelter in a school as Irma hits Fajardo, Puerto Rico." data-credit="Alvin Baez/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/06/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-06T194704Z_103879296_RC124D2B0EA0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-IRMA.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 6, 2017" data-uuid="06519b64-934f-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Families gather for shelter at a church before the hurricane’s arrival in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic." data-credit="Tatiana Fernandez/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/Dominican_Republic_Hurricane_Irma_98458-5824a.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4807" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 6, 2017 " data-uuid="cfbf5594-93be-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A man covers a bodega’s windows before the hurricane hits in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic." data-credit="Tatiana Fernandez/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/Dominican_Republic_Hurrican_Irma_42010-1a716.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4755" data-ratio="1.664" data-title="Sept. 6, 2017 " data-uuid="d5b6c248-93be-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Police patrol in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as Hurricane Irma slams across islands in the northern Caribbean." data-credit="Alvin Baez/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/06/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-06T162557Z_430873591_RC117E41FAD0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-IRMA.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.454" data-title="Sept. 6, 2017" data-uuid="4972ea08-9325-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A man drives through rain and strong winds during the passage of Hurricane Irma, in Fajardo, Puerto Rico." data-credit="Carlos Giusti/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/06/Interactivity/Images/Puerto_Rico_Hurrrican_Irma_16963-7bdfd.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4252" data-ratio="1.498" data-title="Sept. 6, 2017 " data-uuid="34fca170-9354-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Search and rescue crew members clear a fallen tree in Fajardo, Puerto Rico." data-credit="Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/06/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_S687S.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4896" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 6, 2017" data-uuid="e107a6e6-934e-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People view a damaged building on the island of St. Martin." data-credit="Rinsy Xieng/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_S71M1.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="1640" data-ratio="1.814" data-title="Sept. 6, 2017  " data-uuid="525e8b4e-93bc-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A destroyed building is seen in Gustavia." data-credit="Kevin Barrallon/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/07/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_S706N.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2550" data-ratio="0.75" data-title="Sept. 6, 2017  " data-uuid="2f45654a-93be-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="In this image from a video comprising footage taken from social media, partially submerged vehicles, boats and debris sit in a flooded harbor as Irma hits the island of St. Martin." data-credit="RCI Guadeloupe/Reuters" 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in Bayamon, Puerto Rico." data-credit="Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/05/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_S53N8.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4896" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 5, 2017" data-uuid="c29c3532-9281-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Men cover the windows of an auto-parts store in San Juan, Puerto Rico." data-credit="Alvin Baez/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/05/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-05T175906Z_1351997244_RC1F8BC2EFD0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-IRMA.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Sept. 5, 2017" data-uuid="21a06590-926d-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Palm trees sway in the wind in San Juan, Puerto Rico." data-credit="Thais Llorca/European Pressphoto 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