Conservatives are blasting President Joe Biden for his Caribbean Christmas vacation amid several simultaneous crises around the country ranging from cataclysmic weather forecasts to a pending emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border. On Tuesday, the White House announced the Bidens had departed Washington D.C. en route to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the […]
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Governor Asks Nation To Pray For Florida As Irma Begins Assault
Hurricane Irma has begun its assault on Florida as a category 4 storm, lashing the area with winds near 130mph (215km/h) and drenching rain. Millions of people huddled in shelters or in battened-down homes in preparation as Irma’s northern eyewall – the area just outside the eye of the storm, where the most damaging winds […]
Florida Governor Says That Irma Is “Deadly, Deadly, Deadly”
Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade, hit Cuba overnight as a rare Category 5 storm before being downgraded to a Category 3 Saturday morning. It is expected to strengthen again as it heads toward Florida. As of about 3 p.m. Saturday, Irma was 140 miles southeast of Key West with winds […]
Florida, Georgia And South Carolina Declare State Of Emergency In Advance Of Irma
As Hurricane Irma lashes the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, farther north, states of emergency have been declared in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, where residents are bracing for the monster storm. This afternoon, the Category 5 storm dubbed “extremely dangerous” by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), was battering the Caribbean, including the U.S. Virgin […]