Officials warned people to seek protection from Irma's "onslaught" in a statement that closed with: "May God protect us all." Many homes on Barbuda and the neighboring island of Antigua are not built on concrete foundations or have poorly constructed wooden roofs that are susceptible to wind damage. The National Weather Service predicted life-threatening hazards and severe damage beginning Wednesday in the U.S. Virgin Islands before the storm passed "near or just north of Puerto Rico this afternoon or tonight." "You could potentially see some real devastation and destruction to the homes there," said Heather Tesch, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. "Add to that the storm surge and potential flooding, along with some very heavy rains [and] the wind damage — it is going to be a real mess in some of these areas." Then would come the Dominican Republic, Haiti and, most likely, Florida, where "folks need to be pr...
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