Storm Irma hits Maho beach on Dutch island of Sint Maarten
Rain and high winds hit the Dutch island territory of Sint Maarten on Wednesday (September 6) as Hurricane Irma churned through the Caribbean.
Rain and high winds hit the Dutch island territory of Sint Maarten on Wednesday (September 6) as Hurricane Irma churned through the Caribbean.
Amateur video from a fixed beach camera showed violent winds and rain lashing Maho beach, with the glimmer of lights and the fronds of a palm tree blowing horizontally. The camera cuts out as the storm completely obscures the lens.
Maho beach is famed for lying adjacent to the island's airport with aircraft taking off and landing within metres of the sand.
Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, churned across northern Caribbean islands with a potentially catastrophic mix of fierce winds, surf and rain, en route to a possible Florida landfall at the weekend.
The eye of Irma, a Category 5 storm packing winds of 185 miles per hour (295 km per hour), moved away from the island of Barbuda and toward the island of Saint. Martin, east of Puerto Rico, early on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami reported.
Irma is expected to become the second powerful storm to thrash the U.S. mainland in as many weeks but its precise trajectory remained uncertain. Hurricane Harvey killed more than 60 people and caused damaged estimated as high as $180 billion when it hit Texas late last month.
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