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Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group who said he would ride out Hurricane Irma from his 74-acre private island in the Caribbean, has emerged from his fortified wine cellar unscathed. "All of the team who stayed on Necker and Moskito during the hurricane are safe and well," Branson said in a blog post Thursday, which he explained was transcribed with a satellite phone after the storm brought down all lines of communication. "We took shelter from the strongest hurricane ever inside the concrete cellar on Necker and very, very fortunately it held firm. Our thoughts go...

Power and internet outages are expected across Florida when Hurricane Irma slashes through the state this weekend. But if you want to use social media, there are still ways you can do so without WiFi. Get the latest on Hurricane Irma from NBC 6 anywhere, anytime Here’s how you can continue to tweet and Facebook to reach friends, family and loved ones— without the world wide web. FACEBOOK First, register your phone number to set up Facebook texts. To do this, go to your Facebook settings and click “mobile,” then click “add a phone” if you haven’t already added a...

The distressed callers have illnesses that require power to support their portable devices or refrigerators for their medication.South Florida, we need your help! The NBC 6 and Telemundo 51 phone bank received a handful of calls from local residents in critical situations, many of which are people with medical conditions who are unable to get to a shelter. The distressed callers have illnesses that require power to support their portable devices or refrigerators for their medication. We are calling on South Floridians to “adopt a person in need.” If you have a generator and are willing to help someone in...

With the monstrous Hurricane Irma just days away, much of Miami Beach heeded mandatory evacuation orders from officials and headed out. But some of the Beach's smallest residents — the hundreds of feral cats who call the island home — have no way out. So this week, animal lover Mary Garcia began scooping them up one by one and taking them home. She stocked up on cat food and kennels, and cleared out two rooms in her house in inland Miami-Dade County. By Thursday, she had taken in 40 cats. She jokes that her home has become an "animal hostel."...

Full Title...............'Blame Trump!' Outrage as Jennifer Lawrence claims Hurricane Harvey and Irma are Mother Nature's revenge on President for his attitude towards global warming.................................. Jennifer Lawrence spoke out against climate deniers and said she was 'startled' that people voted in President Trump during an interview on her film 'Mother!' The actress blames the recent hurricanes to strike the US on the president's denial of climate change Lawrence caught backlash for the comments made during her interview Viewers of the interview called her said she should keep quiet on political issues

Hurricane Irma forces cancellation of University of Northern Colorado vs. Florida football game Samuel Mustari September 7, 2017 Hurricane Irma wins. It might not even make an appearance in Gainesville, Fla., but in the best interest of student-athletes at the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Florida, the football game between the two schools scheduled for Saturday was canceled because of the impending landfall of Hurricane Irma. Because the schools do not share a common open date, the game will not be rescheduled. However, UNC's payday — originally set at $625,000 — is being negotiated by officials from...

Hurricane names are set years in advance, and are only taken out of circulation if they’re particularly devastating. The names alternate boy/girl and start with the letter A and end with Z. This week, Hurricane Irma is going to make landfall in Florida, and while the impact is yet to be seen, it’s not looking good. So, naturally, over 8,000 people have signed a petition asking for Hurricane Irma to be re-named “Hurricane Ivanka” after President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter. Ivanka is accued of being “complicit in the destruction” the nation faces due to the Trump administration’s climate policy. By...

In an interview with Channel 4, a British public service television network, American actress Jennifer Lawrence blamed the recent hurricanes on Donald Trump’s voters, because they don’t believe in man-made climate change. During the lengthy interview on her new movie Mother!, the conversation turned political about halfway through. After discussing the alleged pay gap between men and women, the interviewer asked Lawrence about climate change and the political climate in America. “I mean when the director was asked about the film, why it was so dark, he said, ‘It’s a mad time to be alive.’ And there is certainly an...

The playground of big-shot climate-change deniers becomes subject to a hurricane evacuation order as of 5 p.m. Friday. And were it not for all the innocent souls who have been and likely will be hurt by Hurricane Irma, you might see poetic justice in homes owned by President Trump and billionaire David Koch and commentators Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter being battered by a storm made the most powerful ever recorded in the Atlantic with a boost from warmer water and moister air.

ISIS supporters are celebrating the dangerous hurricanes heading towards the Unites States, claiming ‘Crusaders’ deserve the punishment.

This plausible track scenario highlights extreme inland wind gusts well in excess of 70-90 mph all the way to Atlanta.

Richard Branson's Necker Island home has been completely destroyed by Hurricane Irma - but the Virgin tycoon survived the deadly storm. The British billionaire retreated to his concrete bunker as the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic hit his Caribbean complex on Wednesday. His son Sam Branson took to Instagram to tell his followers that his father and his staff were 'OK' - but stressed there had been 'lots of damage' to Necker and said one person was dead on the island of Tortola.

Hurricane Irma howled past Puerto Rico with 185mph winds after reducing the tiny tropical islands of Barbuda and St Martin to rubble and claiming at least ten lives. The category 5 storm - the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic - left a trail of deadly devastation through the Caribbean when it struck on Wednesday on a potential collision course with south Florida. Barbuda and St Martin suffered the storm's full fury with roughly 95 per cent of properties destroyed on both islands. Officials said at least eight people died on the French part of St Martin - a...

SNIP A Delta flight that was heading to Puerto Rico from JFK airport on Wednesday managed to outrun Hurricane Irma — flying directly into the path of the Category 5 storm as it was bearing down on the island — before landing and taking off within the span of an hour. The Boeing 737 was reportedly full of passengers after leaving the Big Apple at 8:12 a.m., according to FlightAware. The online tracking system showed Flight 431 arriving in San Juan at 12:01 p.m. — just as Irma was making landfall. SNIP

France’s government has unveiled a law to ban all production and exploration of oil and natural gas by 2040 on the country’s mainland and overseas territories. The move is largely symbolic, however, as France’s oil and gas production represents just 1 percent of national consumption — the rest is imported. Current drilling permits will not be renewed, according to the bill formally presented in a Cabinet meeting Wednesday. France currently has 63 oil and gas drilling projects on its territory. The ban, which the government claims is a world first, is part of a larger plan to wean the country’s...

hurricane Irma is a very real, powerful Category 5 storm that lashed the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico's northeast coast and could potentially wallop South Florida this weekend. But the National Weather Service is warning people to watch out for fake forecasts after several went viral on social media. In Your Words: Tell CBS News how you're preparing for Irma "Keep your eyes out for fake forecasts. THIS is what an official NOAA advisory looks like. Note: forecast only goes out 5 days," the agency said on Facebook. They encouraged readers to visit the National Hurricane Center's official website if...

The tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda was steamrolled by Hurricane Irma — as the superstorm’s confirmed death toll climbed to three Wednesday. Barbuda and Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne reported that 90 percent of the structures on Barbuda were destroyed by the ‘cane, which was packing sustained 185-mph winds when it made landfall at 1:47 a.m. He repeatedly said over a crackling radio line that the island, which is home to about 1,500 people, is destroyed, according to the Guardian.

Hurricane Irma is not only a Category 5 monster, it’s also being described as “an enormous beast” that’s roughly the size of Texas. An image overlay of Irma over the Lone Star State by meteorologist Brian James of Dallas-Forth Worth’s NBC5 showed the massive scale of the spinning behemoth. It measured 785 miles wide Tuesday night, James said, adding that the state spans about 720 miles from El Paso to its opposite border near Shreveport, Louisiana.

<p>Irma, a Category 5 hurricane, is currently making landfall in the Caribbean on the islands east of Puerto Rico, and, like they have with other storms, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has sent planes in to the storm’s eye. Things get intense. And by intense, I mean pants-shittingly terrifying.</p>

Fowey info is fun to watch when storms like IRMA are looming down on the bouy. Wind speeds etc get pretty intense. While yer looking around at others note the water temps.Warmer than my shower.