Death Toll rises as Hurricane Irma hits the Carribbean

Death toll rises to 13 as hurricane Irma hits the Caribbean. Homes and properties destroyed, families displaced.

Hurricane Irma has killed 3 people as it battered through Puerto Rico, with a 79-year-old woman, a younger woman, and a man among the fatalities.

On its current path, hurricane Irma is predicted to pass directly over, or quite close to, the British territories of Turk and Caicos on Thursday night, followed by a brush with the southern islands of the Bahamas and Cuba’s northern coast.

On Friday night, the hurricane is expected to land at or pass near the archipelago of the Florida Keys, an area ordered evacuated by the state’s governor, Rick Scott.

It’s unclear exactly where the storm will exactly strike along the coast. Scott warned that it could veer unexpectedly, and that its gigantic size means that the Gulf and Atlantic coasts alike are threatened by severe storm surges and category-four hurricane winds.