Hurricane Irma:Category 5 hurricane now a tropical storm

Hurricane Irma ripped through northern Florida on Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane and downgraded to a tropical storm Monday morning as it continued its tirade, across the Georgia state line.
Nearly 1.6 million residents were ordered to evacuate the state of Florida, possibly one of the largest evacuations in the history of the United States.
Flooding streets, offset tornadoes, millions without power and several fatalities are the results of Irma’s venomous wrath.
According to CNN, “no storm on record has maintained winds 185 mph or above for as long as Irma,” which lasted about 37 hours.
Irma spent three days as a category 5 hurricane, the longest ever recorded since the creation of satellite-storm tracking and also called for the largest evacuation in the history of the Bahamas ever.
On Sunday, winds totaling nearly 90 mph took out the power lines. Nearly 72 percent of Miami residents are without power, the mayor confirmed.
“More than half of the population of Florida is out of power would be my guess,” Eric Silagy, president and chief executive of Florida Power and Light (FPL), the state’s largest utility, said at a news briefing Monday.
Senior Mass Communications major from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Zachary Williams said, “To know that at one point it was strong enough to like really wipe us out was scary for me because my family lives there.”
Williams expressed that he was relieved to not have been in his hometown during Irma’s catastrophic winds and devastation, but Florida residents are stronger than most, because they experience hurricanes all of the time.
As of now, there is no definite date as to when the state can begin its long road to recovery.
As the tropical storm moves further north, parts of Georgia and South Carolina have begun flooding.