Time runs out for Florida: Hurricane Irma to bring devastating winds, storm surge
(Note: This story will be updated throughout the day Friday.)
Barely two weeks after Hurricane Harvey brought the sprawling, flood-prone city of Houston to a halt, Hurricane Irma promises to deliver a knockout blow to another region experiencing rapid growth, and plagued by what experts call hurricane amnesia.
It has been 13 years since a Category 4 hurricane hit the U.S., when Charley made landfall north of Tampa, but that storm largely spared Miami its worst winds and storm surge flooding.
In fact, lifetime residents of southern parts of Miami under the age of 25 have never experienced a major hurricane making a direct hit before, the last one being compact but devastating Hurricane Andrew, which struck in August 1992 as a compact but ferocious Category 5 storm. That storm, too, missed downtown Miami as well as Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. Read more...
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