Hurricane Irma was the third-costliest hurricane on record causing more than $100 billion dollars in damage (2017 USD).
A British tourist on the island of Saint Martin tweeted from a concrete stairwell where he hid from Hurricane Irma’s wrath:
@woolfallalex
May be my last tweet as power out and noise now apocalyptic. This is like a movie I never want to see. #Irma2017 #StMaarten
Hurricane Irma formed on August 30, 2017 and became a Category 5 hurricane when it grew to 185 miles per hour wind gusts. Hurricane Irma was the third-costliest hurricane on record causing more than $100 billion dollars in damage (2017 USD). There were 134 fatalities as of October 10th.
A British tourist on the island of Saint Martin tweeted from a concrete stairwell where he hid from Hurricane Irma’s wrath:
@woolfallalex
May be my last tweet as power out and noise now apocalyptic. This is like a movie I never want to see. #Irma2017 #StMaarten
In this eBook, In The Eye of Hurricane Irma, I write about our own experiences before, during and after its arrival in our rural Florida county we call home.
Below are but a few of the #hashtags people used as they tried to stay in contact with people in the path of the powerful hurricane:
- #amateurradio
- #Anguilla
- #Barbuda
- #Cape Verde
- #Cuba
- #DisasterAssistance
- #FLKeys
- #Florida
- #hamradio
- #hurricane
- #hurricane_irma
- #hurricaneirma
- #hurricaneirma2017
- #hurricanes
- #hurricanevictims
- #irma
- #Irma2017
- #irmageddon
- #irmahurricane
- #keysstrong
- Leeward Islands
- #LivingInTheLandOfTheRoaringGenerators
- #MyGeneratorIsLouderThanYoursDontBeJealous
- #naples
- #Saba
- #SaintBarthelemy
- #StMart1n
- #severeweather
- #StBarthelemy
- #StCroix
- #StMaarten
- #StThomas
