As Hurricane Irma churns freakishly close to Florida, an estimated 650,000 Miami-Dade residents are now a part of Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s mandatory evacuation order. On barrier islands like Miami Beach, officials were warning people to get out of Dodge as early as Wednesday. But even now — as a…
The National Hurricane Center has now made official what everyone in Miami has feared since late last week: The entirety of South Florida is now under a hurricane warning and a storm surge warning as massive Hurricane Irma bears down on the state. In its 11 p.m. advisory, the Hurricane…
With roughly 72 hours before Hurricane Irma is projected to hit Miami as a Category Four or Five storm, weather forecasts continue to get worse for central Miami. In response, County Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced just after 2:15 today that he’s expanding the mandatory evacuation zones across the area: Those…
As Hurricane Irma plows toward Miami, plywood and bottled water are roughly as hard to find as a good Donald Trump Twitter take, and lines for gas have grown to Soviet proportions. Through it all, the vast majority of Miamians have acted with grace, patience, and good humor. But not everyone has been totally cool under fire.
As Hurricane Irma closes in on Florida, Texas is still reeling from the effects of Harvey. But it’s now clear that the devastation from the storm has gone way beyond flooded homes and wind-damaged buildings: In Houston, flood waters have damaged at least 13 Superfund sites, all heavily polluted areas…
Over the past few days, hordes of patrons have flocked to Trump’s resort in Doral to escape from the wrath of Hurricane Irma. Just this morning, the front desk announced to hopeful guests that the hotel is booked. But it doesn’t seem right for a president whose policies intend to cut disaster relief budgets to benefit from the panic of Irma.
Hurricane Irma is gigantic. And it’s coming to South Florida. As of 8 a.m. today, the only real debate among forecasters is how strong the storm will remain when it arrives in Miami this weekend and whether its über-destructive eye wall makes a direct hit on our urban corridor and the 6 million souls who live there.
Hurricane Irma is still a few days away from making landfall in Florida, but plenty of meteorologists are already predicting the worst. If the Category 5 storm does hit Miami directly, as some models anticipate, the damage could be astounding. One estimate says the tab could reach as high as $300 billion.
If you live on any of Miami-Dade County’s barrier islands or low-lying coastal areas, now is the time to get out. After hurricane forecasts put Miami square in the center of Hurricane Irma’s path, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez late Wednesday ordered a mandatory evacuation of all residents of barrier…
Jamira Kennedy and her fiance were sitting with their one-month-old son Wednesday morning, talking about loading up on food for Hurricane Irma, when they were startled by two loud knocks at the door. It was the police. Just days before the largest Atlantic storm in history is set to arrive…
Hurricane Irma forecasts this morning seemed to give Miami a glimmer of hope. The world’s major storm-modeling programs showed Irma inching closer toward the Atlantic Ocean, and potentially missing South Florida entirely much like Hurricane Matthew did last year. The National Hurricane Center’s latest update offered no such respite. This…
Despite the panic of 185-mph Irma, a Category Five hurricane expected to hit South Florida, residents and businesses in the historic neighborhood Overtown seem unfazed, Having endured hurricanes Andrew and Wilma, many civilians seem prepared for whatever the storm may bring.
As of 8 a.m. today, Hurricane Irma is still a record-shattering monster in the Atlantic. As the storm churns 15 miles west of Saint Martin, Irma packs 185 mph sustained winds and frighteningly low central pressure of 918 mb. Irma is pounding the Leeward Islands, has Puerto Rico and the Bahamas in its sights, and — as of now — still looks like a very real threat for Florida.
Over the past couple of years, Miami Beach’s hip Sunset Harbour neighborhood has weathered its fair share of big storms. After a thunderstorm last October, Pubbelly Sushi flooded with nearly six inches of water. A dispute over the street levels led an insurance company to refuse to pay a claim…
Even a novelist reaching for a heavy-handed metaphor about Miami’s tendency toward unsafe overdevelopment would have winced at a Tuesday press release sent by the city. Because it seems the dozens of cranes towering over the new luxury condo towers rising over Brickell and Downtown could literally kill you if…
Store shelves were running low across South Florida by Tuesday morning as locals hurried to prepare for Hurricane Irma, which is already one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.
As of 11 a.m., Hurricane Irma drifted toward the Leeward Islands with winds churning at 180 mph, which makes the storm the strongest ever recorded outside the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Miami got lucky during last year’s hurricane season — the Category 5 Hurricane Matthew barely missed the city and wound up making landfall on the north end of Florida. But things don’t quite look as good right now: The Category 5 Hurricane Irma is rapidly approaching the Caribbean, and is…
Just one short month ago, Tropical Storm Emily — a weak tropical cyclone that didn’t even cross over South Florida — dumped enough water in South Beach to ruin dozens of cars and flood several restaurants. After Tuesday’s announcement that Hurricane Irma is now a Category 5 storm, Miami Beach officials are trying to keep residents calm while making preparations for a worst-case scenario.
A few Miami politicians are trying to make it safer to ride a bike here. Miami City Commissioner Ken Russell has pushed for painted bike lanes downtown, which cyclists love but drivers now blame for screwing up traffic patterns in the area. But anyone who’s ever ridden a bike here…
Boca Raton’s GEO Group is one of the most powerful private-prison companies in America — and a major player in state and federal politics. GEO throws campaign money at Florida lawmakers from both parties: Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, Gov. Rick Scott, Reps. Carlos Curbelo and Mario Diaz-Balart,…
In just a few months, Miami will finally be rid of Jeffrey Loria. Whenever he finalizes his deal to offload the Marlins to a new ownership team including Derek Jeter, Loria’s big, dumb, taxpayer-cheating face will presumably never appear on this news site again. We can all hold a big party.
