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Breaking: “Brace yourselves” – Hurricane Irma has finally reached Florida




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US media is reporting that Hurricane Irma has finally made landfall on the south eastern State of Florida.

A major State of emergency was declared in Florida with over 6 million, 300 thousand people being ordered to leave their homes over the past 24 hours.

Florida’s Governor Rick Scott has said that this is a matter of life and death and that anyone’s house is less than 15 feet above sea level will be under water within the next 24 hours.

The entire State of Florida will be engulfed by heavy rains and winds of up to to a staggering 150mph over the next 24 hours.

Makeshift shelters have been erected throughout the State in an effort to wait out what Irma has to offer.

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