| Published Tue, September 12th 2017 at 08:30, Updated September 12th 2017 at 09:18 GMT +3Hurricane Irma has left devastating effect in Florida. SUMMARY As Hurricane Irma pushed inland Storm-Shocked Floridians returned to shattered homesU.S. Defense Department says as many as 10,000 residents who had stayed put on the island may be in need of evacuation. FLORIDA CITY: Storm-shocked Floridians returned to shattered homes on Monday as the remnants of Hurricane Irma pushed inland, leaving more than half of all state residents without power and city streets underwater from Orlando and Jacksonville into coastal Georgia and South Carolina. In Miami, which escaped the worst of Irma’s winds but experienced heavy flooding, residents in the city’s Little Haiti neighborhood returned to the wreckage of trailer homes that were shredded by the storm. Insured property losses in Florida from Irma are expected to run from $20 billion to $40 billion, catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimated.

Source: Standard Digital September 12, 2017 06:11 UTC