If people have heeded the warning about the hurricane's danger, this wouldn't even an issue.
There are some dead, that is known. Everyone did a great job. Everyone. People make choices most others would not. Everyone did a great job.
Hurricanes are known dangers. It should not take enormous efforts to move people. When reflecting on the number of people moved to leave their homes to seek safety, this was an incredibly successful effort.
The picture of the tornado is novel and interesting, but, realistically one has to wonder if the picture should exist at all if all had evacuated. The photographer is a lucky person. The odds didn't deliver the tornado overhead. Luck is not a friend when facing a hurricane. This is not a wise thing to do.
By Harriet Alexander, James Rothwell and Julie Allen
Tornado setting down in Fort Lauderdale.
...One woman in Miami (click here) had to deliver her own baby girl during the storm as emergency services were unable to reach her. A fire service spokesman said: "We weren't able to respond. Dispatch told her how to do it and she's stable at home."
Among at least three people reported dead as Irma hit was sheriff's deputy Julie Bridges who died alongside another in a car crash about 60 miles from Sarasota.
In a separate accident, a man lost control of a truck in strong winds in Key West.
Irma made landfall in Florida on Sunday morning at Cudjoe Key with sustained winds of 130 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
It was expected to bring up to 25 inches of rain in some parts of the Keys.
Some 6.4 million Floridians had been ordered to evacuate, more than a quarter of Florida' population, amid warnings they would be "on their own" if they stayed. Of those who stayed 100,000 were in shelters, but some chose to remain in their own homes....
