Hurricane Irma
After tearing through the Florida Keys and making landfall along the state’s southwest coast, Hurricane Irma crawled up the middle of Florida late Sunday night, slowly spinning toward the Tampa region.
After days of frantic preparations, residents in Tampa were bracing for Irma’s arrival early Monday, weaker than expected but still packing wind gusts of about 100 miles per hour. The storm, which was downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane, continued to lose strength as it pushed inland, but its reach extended from South Florida to Jacksonville. It was expected to remain a hurricane through at least Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.
The counterclockwise rotation of Irma’s wind pushed water out of the Tampa Bay throughout Sunday. But after the center of the storm passes Tampa early Monday morning, the direction of the winds will reverse and push water back into the bay, adding to the flooding, said Andrew McKaughan, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Tampa.
Hurricane Irma’s push into Central Florida shoved heavy rain and strong winds into parts of Florida not initially expecting to feel the brunt of the storm. Winds were reaching 60 miles per hour along the coast near Jacksonville and expected to intensify as Irma’s center slogged north.
Already crippling more than 3.3 million customers across the state, power failures sprawled by the hour. There was no television to keep many residents updated, with only the remaining battery on their cellphones keeping them in touch with the world.
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face,” Mayor Bob Buckhorn of Tampa said at a news conference earlier in the day, paraphrasing Mike Tyson. “Well, we’re about to get punched in the face.”
The audience that is most common to see this article are the Americans who care most about what happens in their country. The people who read this article may think about what the americans go through with this natural disaster, since this happened in the US people would focus on the americans. The publisher’s point of view is from the american side, because he is talking about areas where hurricane Irma will affect in the USA, and giving information about them and their security measures. Also the source is New York Times a newspaper directed to americans. In this article, the authors Sarah, Barbara and Daphne are in a neutral position since this is not a conflict between two sides. This is a natural disaster and they are in a informing the readers about the hurricane. This article is directed or targeted to mostly Americans because it informs about the hurricane irma that is currently crawled up in the middle of Florida, the source is New York times. The people who read this paper are mostly US citizens. The objective of this article is to inform local citizens from new york about what is happening in Florida so that they can be informed and be aware. The news can also be directed to any person in general if they want to know about this natural disaster and how it is affecting.
Opinion: Irma is a very dangerous hurricane that will affect a lot the caribbean and Florida, there is not much we can do about it but we can definitely help the people there who are losing their homes and have to evacuate, we can send food, water, supplies etc. Nowadays there have been a lot of natural disasters and in our opinion this is a wake up call from earth that we are doing something wrong, we are killing our planet and we are doing nothing about it, so besides helping the people who are being damaged by this phenomenon we have to take action and start helping our planet or we are going to finish destroying it soon.
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Times, T. N. (2017, September 10). Hurricane Irma Live: Southwest Florida Is ‘About to Get Punched’. Retrieved September 11, 2017, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/us/hurricane-irma-florida.html
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